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title: Leviticus 20:2 (JPS 1917) — Moreover, thou shalt say to the children of Israel: Whosoever he be… · tree and pragmatics
description: Moreover, thou shalt say to the children of Israel: Whosoever he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death; the people of the land shall stone him with stones. Who acts: thou, Whosoever, strangers, p
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# Leviticus 20:2 · JPS 1917

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Moreover, thou shalt say to the children of Israel: Whosoever he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death; the people of the land shall stone him with stones.

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**Who acts:** thou, Whosoever, strangers, people · **What happens:** say, be, sojourn, give, put, stone · **To what, where:** children, Israel, LORD · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Leviticus 20:2 · 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 (thou, Whosoever, strangers, people), 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:581
# text = Moreover, thou shalt say to the children of Israel: Whosoever he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death; the people of the land shall stone him with stones.
1	Moreover	moreover	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nsubj	_	_
4	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
12	Whosoever	whosoever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	ccomp	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	strangers	stranger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	sojourn	sojourn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
31	giveth	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
35	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	Molech	Molech	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
37	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	42	punct	_	_
38	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj:pass	_	_
39	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
40	surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
41	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	aux:pass	_	_
42	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
43	to	to	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
45	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	52	punct	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	nsubj	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	_
51	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
52	stone	stone	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
53	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	obj	_	_
54	with	with	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	obl	_	_
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | shall | thou |  | the children of Israel |  |  | moreover *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to child=Recipient |
| 2 | **is** | infinitive | Whosoever |  |  |  |  | of the children or the strangers; of Israel | tree rules |
| 3 | **sojourn** | present | the strangers |  |  | Israel |  |  | vn weekend-56 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in israel=Location |
| 4 | **give** | present | the strangers |  |  |  |  | of LORD's seed; unto Molech | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **put** | shall · passive |  | LORD |  |  |  | to death; surely *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal |
| 6 | **stone** | shall | the people of the land |  | LORD |  |  | with stones | vn pelt-17.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Destination with stone=Theme |

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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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וְאֶל־בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֘לתֹּאמַר֒ אִ֣ישׁ אִישׁ֩ מִבְּנֵ֨י יִשְׂרָאֵ֜ל וּמִן־הַגֵּ֣ר ׀ הַגָּ֣ר בְּיִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל אֲשֶׁ֨ר יִתֵּ֧ן מִזַּרְע֛וֹ לַמֹּ֖לֶךְ מ֣וֹת יוּמָ֑ת עַ֥ם הָאָ֖רֶץ יִרְגְּמֻ֥הוּ בָאָֽבֶן׃

[Leviticus 20:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.20.2/)

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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:581` 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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