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title: Leviticus 20:10 (JPS 1917) — And the man that committeth adultery with another man's wife, even h… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the man that committeth adultery with another man's wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour's wife, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death. Who acts: man. Leviticus 20:10 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Leviticus 20:10 · JPS 1917

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And the man that committeth adultery with another man's wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour's wife, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** commit, put · **To what, where:** adultery, man

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This is Leviticus 20:10 · 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 (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:589
# text = And the man that committeth adultery with another man's wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour's wife, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	committeth	commit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	adultery	adultery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
9	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	even	even	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	appos	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	committeth	commit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	adultery	adultery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	both	both	DET	DT	_	26	cc:preconj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	adulterer	adulterer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	adulteress	adulteress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
30	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
31	surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
32	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	33	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **commit** | present | the man | adultery |  |  |  | with another man's wife | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adultery=Theme |
| 2 | **commit** | present |  | adultery |  |  |  | with man's neighbour's wife | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adultery=Theme |
| 3 | **put** | shall · passive |  | the man |  |  |  | to death; surely *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=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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וְאִ֗ישׁ אֲשֶׁ֤ר יִנְאַף֙ אֶת־אֵ֣שֶׁת אִ֔ישׁ אֲשֶׁ֥ר יִנְאַ֖ף אֶת־אֵ֣שֶׁת רֵעֵ֑הוּ מֽוֹת־יוּמַ֥ת הַנֹּאֵ֖ף וְהַנֹּאָֽפֶת׃

[Leviticus 20:10: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.20.10/)

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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:589` 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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