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title: Leviticus 21:5 (JPS 1917) — They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they sha… · tree and pragmatics
description: They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corners of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh. Who acts: people. Leviticus 21:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Leviticus 21:5 · JPS 1917

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They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corners of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.

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**Who acts:** people · **What happens:** not make, shave off, make · **To what, where:** baldness, corners, cuttings, flesh

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This is Leviticus 21:5 · 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), 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:611
# text = They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corners of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	baldness	baldness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	13	cc	_	_
11	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	shave	shave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
14	off	off	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	corners	corner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	beard	beard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	22	cc	_	_
22	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
23	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	24	det	_	_
24	cuttings	cutting	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	flesh	flesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=request

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **make** | shall | people | baldness |  |  |  | upon people's head | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset baldness=Product |
| 2 | **shave off** | shall | people | the corners of people's beard |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corner=Patient |
| 3 | **make** | infinitive | people *not said here* | any cuttings |  | people's flesh |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cutting=Product |

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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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לֹֽא־יִקְרְח֤וּ קָרְחָה֙ בְּרֹאשָׁ֔ם וּפְאַ֥ת זְקָנָ֖ם לֹ֣א יְגַלֵּ֑חוּ וּבִ֨בְשָׂרָ֔ם לֹ֥א יִשְׂרְט֖וּ שָׂרָֽטֶת׃

[Leviticus 21:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.21.5/)

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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:611` 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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