--- title: Leviticus 18:26 (JPS 1917) — Ye therefore shall keep My statutes and Mine ordinances, and shall n… · tree and pragmatics description: Ye therefore shall keep My statutes and Mine ordinances, and shall not do any of these abominations; neither the home-born, nor the stranger that sojourneth among you — Who acts: Ye, stranger, Mine. 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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 (Ye, stranger, Mine), 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:537 # text = Ye therefore shall keep My statutes and Mine ordinances, and shall not do any of these abominations; neither the home-born, nor the stranger that sojourneth among you — 1 Ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 4 nsubj _ _ 2 therefore therefore ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 3 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 statutes statute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 Mine mine PRON PRP Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 ordinances ordinance NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 14 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 15 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 14 obj _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 18 det _ _ 18 abominations abomination NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 20 neither neither CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 24 cc:preconj _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 22 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ _ 24 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 parataxis _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 28 cc _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 stranger stranger NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 29 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 30 nsubj _ _ 30 sojourneth sojourn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 acl:relcl _ _ 31 among among ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 30 obl _ _ 33 — - PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: promise - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | shall | Ye | My statutes and Mine ordinances | | | | therefore *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent statute=Theme | | 2 | **not** **do** | shall | Ye *not said here* | any | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Eventuality | | 3 | **bear** | participle | | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **sojourn** | present | the stranger | | | | | among you | vn weekend-56 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among you=Location | | 5 | **ordain** | | Mine | | | | | | nom ordinance «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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} וּשְׁמַרְתֶּ֣ם אַתֶּ֗ם אֶת־חֻקֹּתַי֙ וְאֶת־מִשְׁפָּטַ֔י וְלֹ֣א תַעֲשׂ֔וּ מִכֹּ֥ל הַתּוֹעֵבֹ֖ת הָאֵ֑לֶּה הָֽאֶזְרָ֔ח וְהַגֵּ֖ר הַגָּ֥ר בְּתוֹכְכֶֽם׃ [Leviticus 18:26: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.18.26/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:LEV:537` 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 18:25 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.536/) - next →: [Leviticus 18:27 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.538/) - ↑ back to [Leviticus 18:26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.18.26/)