--- title: Leviticus 21:8 (JPS 1917) — Thou shalt sanctify him therefore; for he offereth the bread of thy… · tree and pragmatics description: Thou shalt sanctify him therefore; for he offereth the bread of thy God; he shall be holy unto thee; for I the LORD, who sanctify you, am holy. Who acts: Thou, husband, LORD, I. 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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, husband, LORD, I), 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:614 # text = Thou shalt sanctify him therefore; for he offereth the bread of thy God; he shall be holy unto thee; for I the LORD, who sanctify you, am holy. 1 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 3 nsubj _ _ 2 shalt shall AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 sanctify sanctify VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 therefore therefore ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 6 ; ; PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 7 for for SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 offereth offer VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 bread bread NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 17 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 19 cop _ _ 19 holy holy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ _ 20 unto unto ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 19 obl _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 23 for for SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 24 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 appos _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 29 nsubj _ _ 29 sanctify sanctify VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ _ 30 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 32 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 33 holy holy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sanctify** | shall | Thou | husband | | | | therefore *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **offer** | present | husband | the bread of thy God | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent bread=Theme | | 3 | **is** | shall | husband | | | | | unto thee; holy *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **sanctify** | present | the LORD | you | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | present | I | | | | | holy *property* | tree rules | 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} וְקִדַּשְׁתּ֔וֹ כִּֽי־אֶת־לֶ֥חֶם אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ ה֣וּא מַקְרִ֑יב קָדֹשׁ֙ יִֽהְיֶה־לָּ֔ךְ כִּ֣י קָד֔וֹשׁ אֲנִ֥י יְהוָ֖ה מְקַדִּשְׁכֶֽם׃ [Leviticus 21:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.21.8/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:LEV:614` 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. - ← previous: [Leviticus 21:7 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.613/) - next →: [Leviticus 21:9 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.615/) - ↑ back to [Leviticus 21:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.21.8/)