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title: Leviticus 19:20 (JPS 1917) — And whosoever lieth carnally with a woman, that is a bondmaid, desig… · tree and pragmatics
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# Leviticus 19:20 · JPS 1917

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And whosoever lieth carnally with a woman, that is a bondmaid, designated for a man, and not at all redeemed, nor was freedom given her; there shall be inquisition; they shall not be put to death, because she was not free.

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**Who acts:** woman, inquisition · **What happens:** lie, be, designate, not redeem, give, not put · **To what, where:** bondmaid, freedom, woman, statutes

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This is Leviticus 19:20 · 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 (woman, inquisition), 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:562
# text = And whosoever lieth carnally with a woman, that is a bondmaid, designated for a man, and not at all redeemed, nor was freedom given her; there shall be inquisition; they shall not be put to death, because she was not free.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
2	whosoever	whosoever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	33	dislocated	_	_
3	lieth	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
4	carnally	carnally	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	bondmaid	bondmaid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	acl:relcl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	designated	designate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	all	all	ADV	RB	_	23	obl	_	_
23	redeemed	redeem	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	28	cc	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
27	freedom	freedom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	conj	_	_
29	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	iobj	_	_
30	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
31	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	33	expl	_	_
32	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
34	inquisition	inquisition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
35	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	40	punct	_	_
36	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj:pass	_	_
37	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
38	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	40	advmod	_	_
39	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	aux:pass	_	_
40	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	parataxis	_	_
41	to	to	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
44	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
45	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
46	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	cop	_	_
47	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	48	advmod	_	_
48	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	advcl	_	_
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	33	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | present |  |  |  |  |  | with a woman; carnally *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | a woman | a bondmaid |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **designate** | participle |  | a bondmaid *not said here* |  |  |  | for a man | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **redeem** | participle | a woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **give** | past · passive |  | freedom | woman |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient she=Theme |
| 6 | **be** | shall | inquisition |  |  | there |  | whosoever *dislocated* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **not** **put** | shall · passive |  | statutes *= statute* |  |  |  | to death | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal |
| 8 | **not** **is** | past | inquisition |  |  |  |  | free *property* | tree rules |

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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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וְ֠אִישׁ כִּֽי־יִשְׁכַּ֨ב אֶת־אִשָּׁ֜ה שִׁכְבַת־זֶ֗רַע וְהִ֤וא שִׁפְחָה֙ נֶחֱרֶ֣פֶת לְאִ֔ישׁ וְהָפְדֵּה֙ לֹ֣א נִפְדָּ֔תָה א֥וֹ חֻפְשָׁ֖ה לֹ֣א נִתַּן־לָ֑הּ בִּקֹּ֧רֶת תִּהְיֶ֛ה לֹ֥א יוּמְת֖וּ כִּי־לֹ֥א חֻפָּֽשָׁה׃

[Leviticus 19:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.19.20/)

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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:562` 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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