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title: Leviticus 18:29 (JPS 1917) — For whosoever shall do any of these abominations, even the souls tha… · tree and pragmatics
description: For whosoever shall do any of these abominations, even the souls that do them shall be cut off from among their people. Who acts: whosoever, souls. Leviticus 18:29 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Leviticus 18:29 · JPS 1917

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For whosoever shall do any of these abominations, even the souls that do them shall be cut off from among their people.

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**Who acts:** whosoever, souls · **What happens:** do, cut off · **To what, where:** any, souls

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This is Leviticus 18:29 · JPS 1917 in the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, from Mova's open Bible corpus. 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 (whosoever, souls), 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:540
# text = For whosoever shall do any of these abominations, even the souls that do them shall be cut off from among their people.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	whosoever	whosoever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
5	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	abominations	abomination	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
10	even	even	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	souls	soul	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
19	off	off	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	among	among	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | shall | whosoever | any |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Eventuality |
| 2 | **do** | present | the souls | souls *= soul* |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality |
| 3 | **cut off** | shall · passive |  | the souls |  |  |  | from souls's people | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Theme from people=Initial\_Location |

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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}

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כִּ֚י כָּל־אֲשֶׁ֣ר יַעֲשֶׂ֔ה מִכֹּ֥ל הַתּוֹעֵב֖וֹת הָאֵ֑לֶּה וְנִכְרְת֛וּ הַנְּפָשׁ֥וֹת הָעֹשֹׂ֖ת מִקֶּ֥רֶב עַמָּֽם׃

[Leviticus 18:29: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.18.29/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:LEV:540` 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.

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