--- title: Leviticus 18:21 (JPS 1917) — And thou shalt not give any of thy seed to set them apart to Molech,… · tree and pragmatics description: And thou shalt not give any of thy seed to set them apart to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the LORD. Who acts: thou, I. 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The page gives the sentence's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, parsed by Mova and checked by a teacher model — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it. The original of the verse links back to its own tree and to the Targum. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = jps:LEV:532 # text = And thou shalt not give any of thy seed to set them apart to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the LORD. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 2 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 5 nsubj _ _ 3 shalt shall AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 5 obj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 seed seed NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 set set VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ _ 12 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 apart apart ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 Molech Molech PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 neither neither CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 20 cc _ _ 18 shalt shall AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 19 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 20 nsubj _ _ 20 profane profane VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 26 : : PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 27 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 28 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 LORD lord NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 parataxis _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: request - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **give** | shall | thou | any | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Theme | | 2 | **set** | to-infinitive | thou *not said here* | woman | Molech | | | apart *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient they=Result | | 3 | **profane** | shall | thou | the name of thy God | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | present | I | the LORD | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **name** | | | thy God | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. ## The Hebrew of this verse {#hebrew} וּמִֽזַּרְעֲךָ֥ לֹא־תִתֵּ֖ן לְהַעֲבִ֣יר לַמֹּ֑לֶךְ וְלֹ֧א תְחַלֵּ֛ל אֶת־שֵׁ֥ם אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ אֲנִ֥י יְהוָֽה׃ [Leviticus 18:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.18.21/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:LEV:532` of Mova's parse database. **The tree and the speech act** come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter. - ← previous: [Leviticus 18:20 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.531/) - next →: [Leviticus 18:22 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.533/) - ↑ back to [Leviticus 18:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.18.21/)