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title: Leviticus 22:11 (JPS 1917) — But if a priest buy any soul, the purchase of his money, he may eat… · tree and pragmatics
description: But if a priest buy any soul, the purchase of his money, he may eat of it; and such as are born in his house, they may eat of his bread. Who acts: priest, tenant. Leviticus 22:11 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Leviticus 22:11 · JPS 1917

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But if a priest buy any soul, the purchase of his money, he may eat of it; and such as are born in his house, they may eat of his bread.

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**Who acts:** priest, tenant · **What happens:** buy, eat, bear, purchase · **To what, where:** soul, house, money

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This is Leviticus 22:11 · 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 (priest, tenant), 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:642
# text = But if a priest buy any soul, the purchase of his money, he may eat of it; and such as are born in his house, they may eat of his bread.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	buy	buy	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
6	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	purchase	purchase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
22	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	dislocated	_	_
23	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl:relcl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **buy** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a priest | any soul |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=Theme |
| 2 | **eat** | may | priest |  |  |  |  | of money | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of it=Source |
| 3 | **bear** | present · passive |  |  |  | priest's house |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S» |
| 4 | **eat** | may | tenant |  |  |  |  | of priest's bread; such *dislocated* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of bread=Source |
| 5 | **purchase** |  |  | priest's money |  |  |  |  | nom purchase «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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וְכֹהֵ֗ן כִּֽי־יִקְנֶ֥ה נֶ֙פֶשׁ֙ קִנְיַ֣ן כַּסְפּ֔וֹ ה֖וּא יֹ֣אכַל בּ֑וֹ וִילִ֣יד בֵּית֔וֹ הֵ֖ם יֹאכְל֥וּ בְלַחְמֽוֹ׃

[Leviticus 22:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.22.11/)

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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:642` 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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