--- title: Leviticus 22:9 (JPS 1917) — They shall therefore keep My charge, lest they bear sin for it, and… · tree and pragmatics description: They shall therefore keep My charge, lest they bear sin for it, and die therein, if they profane it: I am the LORD who sanctify them. Who acts: beasts, I, LORD, My. 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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 (beasts, I, LORD, My), 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:640 # text = They shall therefore keep My charge, lest they bear sin for it, and die therein, if they profane it: I am the LORD who sanctify them. 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 therefore therefore ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 charge charge NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 lest lest SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 9 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 bear bear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 11 sin sin NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 12 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 die die VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 17 therein therein ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 if if SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 20 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 profane profane VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 : : PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 24 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 25 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 LORD lord NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ _ 28 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 29 nsubj _ _ 29 sanctify sanctify VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl:relcl _ _ 30 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | shall | beasts *= beast* | My charge | | | | therefore *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charge=Theme | | 2 | **bear** | present | beasts *= beast* | sin | | | | for sin | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer sin=Stimulus for it=Attribute | | 3 | **die** | infinitive | beasts *= beast* *not said here* | | | | | therein *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **profane** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | beasts *= beast* | charge | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is a** | present | I | the LORD | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **sanctify** | present | the LORD | beasts *= beast* | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **charge** | | My | | | | | | nom charge «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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} וְשָׁמְר֣וּ אֶת־מִשְׁמַרְתִּ֗י וְלֹֽא־יִשְׂא֤וּ עָלָיו֙ חֵ֔טְא וּמֵ֥תוּ ב֖וֹ כִּ֣י יְחַלְּלֻ֑הוּ אֲנִ֥י יְהוָ֖ה מְקַדְּשָֽׁם׃ [Leviticus 22:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.22.9/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:LEV:640` 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 22:8 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.639/) - next →: [Leviticus 22:10 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.641/) - ↑ back to [Leviticus 22:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.22.9/)