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title: Leviticus 20:4 (JPS 1917) — And if the people of the land do at all hide their eyes from that ma… · tree and pragmatics
description: And if the people of the land do at all hide their eyes from that man, when he giveth of his seed unto Molech, and put him not to death; Who acts: people, man. Leviticus 20:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Leviticus 20:4 · JPS 1917

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And if the people of the land do at all hide their eyes from that man, when he giveth of his seed unto Molech, and put him not to death;

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**Who acts:** people, man · **What happens:** hide, give, not put · **To what, where:** eyes, man

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This is Leviticus 20:4 · 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 (people, man), 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:583
# text = And if the people of the land do at all hide their eyes from that man, when he giveth of his seed unto Molech, and put him not to death;
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	all	all	ADV	RB	_	11	obl	_	_
11	hide	hide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	20	mark	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	giveth	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Molech	Molech	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
33	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	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 | **hide** | present · do-support | the people of the land | people's eyes |  |  |  | from that man | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent eye=Patient from man=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **give** | present | man |  |  |  |  | of man's seed; unto Molech | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **put** | infinitive | the people of the land *not said here* |  | man |  |  | to death | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal |

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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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וְאִ֡ם הַעְלֵ֣ם יַעְלִימֽוּ֩ עַ֨ם הָאָ֜רֶץ אֶת־עֵֽינֵיהֶם֙ מִן־הָאִ֣ישׁ הַה֔וּא בְּתִתּ֥וֹ מִזַּרְע֖וֹ לַמֹּ֑לֶךְ לְבִלְתִּ֖י הָמִ֥ית אֹתֽוֹ׃

[Leviticus 20:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.20.4/)

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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:583` 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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