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title: Leviticus 19:29 (JPS 1917) — Profane not thy daughter, to make her a harlot, lest the land fall i… · tree and pragmatics
description: Profane not thy daughter, to make her a harlot, lest the land fall into harlotry, and the land become full of lewdness. Who acts: you, land. Leviticus 19:29 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Leviticus 19:29 · JPS 1917

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Profane not thy daughter, to make her a harlot, lest the land fall into harlotry, and the land become full of lewdness.

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**Who acts:** you, land · **What happens:** not profane, make, fall, become · **To what, where:** daughter, person, harlotry

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This is Leviticus 19:29 · 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 (you, land), 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:571
# text = Profane not thy daughter, to make her a harlot, lest the land fall into harlotry, and the land become full of lewdness.
1	Profane	profane	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	1	advmod	_	_
3	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
8	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	harlot	harlot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	xcomp	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	lest	lest	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	harlotry	harlotry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	become	become	VERB	VB	Mood=Sub|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
23	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	lewdness	lewdness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=request, form=imp, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **profane** | imperative | you *not said here* | thy daughter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | person |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset she=Product |
| 3 | **fall** | infinitive | the land |  |  |  |  | into harlotry *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into harlotry=Result |
| 4 | **become** | infinitive | the land |  |  |  |  | full *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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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אַל־תְּחַלֵּ֥ל אֶֽת־בִּתְּךָ֖ לְהַזְנוֹתָ֑הּ וְלֹא־תִזְנֶ֣ה הָאָ֔רֶץ וּמָלְאָ֥ה הָאָ֖רֶץ זִמָּֽה׃

[Leviticus 19:29: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.19.29/)

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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:571` 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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