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title: Leviticus 20:24 (JPS 1917) — But I have said unto you: 'Ye shall inherit their land, and I will g… · tree and pragmatics
description: But I have said unto you: 'Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land flowing with milk and honey.' I am the LORD your God, who have set you apart from the peoples. Who acts: I, Ye, land, God. Leviticus 20:24 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Leviticus 20:24 · JPS 1917

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But I have said unto you: 'Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land flowing with milk and honey.' I am the LORD your God, who have set you apart from the peoples.

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**Who acts:** I, Ye, land, God · **What happens:** say, inherit, give, possess, flow, be · **To what, where:** land, LORD, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Leviticus 20:24 · 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 (I, Ye, land, God), 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:603
# text = But I have said unto you: 'Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land flowing with milk and honey.' I am the LORD your God, who have set you apart from the peoples.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
8	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
9	Ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	nsubj	_	_
10	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	inherit	inherit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	possess	possess	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
28	flowing	flow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	acl	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
34	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
35	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
36	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
39	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	appos	_	_
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
42	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	44	nsubj	_	_
43	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
44	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	40	acl:relcl	_	_
45	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	44	obj	_	_
46	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
47	from	from	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	peoples	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	obl	_	_
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · perfect | I |  |  |  |  | unto you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **inherit** | shall | Ye | customs's land |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Theme |
| 3 | **give** | future | I | land |  |  |  | unto you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **possess** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | land |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |
| 5 | **flow** | gerund | a land *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with milk and honey | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with milk=Theme |
| 6 | **is a** | present | I | the LORD |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **set** | present · perfect | your God | you |  |  |  | from the peoples; apart *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient you=Result |

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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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וָאֹמַ֣ר לָכֶ֗ם אַתֶּם֮ תִּֽירְשׁ֣וּ אֶת־אַדְמָתָם֒ וַאֲנִ֞י אֶתְּנֶ֤נָּה לָכֶם֙ לָרֶ֣שֶׁת אֹתָ֔הּ אֶ֛רֶץ זָבַ֥ת חָלָ֖ב וּדְבָ֑שׁ אֲנִי֙ יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹֽהֵיכֶ֔ם אֲשֶׁר־הִבְדַּ֥לְתִּי אֶתְכֶ֖ם מִן־הָֽעַמִּֽים׃

[Leviticus 20:24: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.20.24/)

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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:603` 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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