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title: Leviticus 22:28 (JPS 1917) — And whether it be cow or ewe, ye shall not kill it and its young bot… · tree and pragmatics
description: And whether it be cow or ewe, ye shall not kill it and its young both in one day. Who acts: sheep, ye. Leviticus 22:28 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Leviticus 22:28 · JPS 1917

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And whether it be cow or ewe, ye shall not kill it and its young both in one day.

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**Who acts:** sheep, ye · **What happens:** be, not kill · **To what, where:** cow, sheep

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This is Leviticus 22:28 · 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 (sheep, ye), 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:659
# text = And whether it be cow or ewe, ye shall not kill it and its young both in one day.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
2	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	Mood=Sub|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	advcl	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	ewe	ewe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	nsubj	_	_
10	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	kill	kill	VERB	VB	Mood=Ind|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	young	young	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
17	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc:preconj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | infinitive | sheep | cow or ewe |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **kill** | shall | ye | sheep |  |  | day |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

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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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וְשׁ֖וֹר אוֹ־שֶׂ֑ה אֹת֣וֹ וְאֶת־בְּנ֔וֹ לֹ֥א תִשְׁחֲט֖וּ בְּי֥וֹם אֶחָֽד׃

[Leviticus 22:28: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.22.28/)

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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:659` 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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