--- title: Leviticus 21:17 (JPS 1917) — Speak unto Aaron, saying: Whosoever he be of thy seed throughout the… · tree and pragmatics description: Speak unto Aaron, saying: Whosoever he be of thy seed throughout their generations that hath a blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God. Who acts: you, Whosoever, seed, LORD. 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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 (you, Whosoever, seed, LORD), 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:623 # text = Speak unto Aaron, saying: Whosoever he be of thy seed throughout their generations that hath a blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God. 1 Speak speak VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 unto unto ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 Aaron Aaron PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 advcl _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 7 Whosoever whosoever PRON WP PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 9 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 12 cop _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 seed seed NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 advcl _ _ 13 throughout throughout ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 generations generation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 16 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 17 nsubj _ _ 17 hath have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 blemish blemish NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 22 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 24 approach approach VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 xcomp _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 offer offer VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 advcl _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 bread bread NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | unto Aaron | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | infinitive | Whosoever | | | | throughout people's generations | of thy seed | tree rules | | 4 | **have** | present | thy seed | a blemish | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blemish=Patient | | 5 | **let** | infinitive | | LORD | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **not** **approach** | infinitive | LORD *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **offer** | to-infinitive | LORD *not said here* | the bread of LORD's God | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent bread=Theme | 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} דַּבֵּ֥ר אֶֽל־אַהֲרֹ֖ן לֵאמֹ֑ר אִ֣ישׁ מִֽזַּרְעֲךָ֞ לְדֹרֹתָ֗ם אֲשֶׁ֨ר יִהְיֶ֥ה בוֹ֙ מ֔וּם לֹ֣א יִקְרַ֔ב לְהַקְרִ֖יב לֶ֥חֶם אֱלֹהָֽיו׃ [Leviticus 21:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.21.17/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:LEV:623` 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 21:16 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.622/) - next →: [Leviticus 21:18 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.624/) - ↑ back to [Leviticus 21:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.21.17/)