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title: Leviticus 24:2 (JPS 1917) — 'Command the children of Israel, that they bring unto thee pure oliv… · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Command the children of Israel, that they bring unto thee pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause a lamp to burn continually. Who acts: you, children, lamp. Leviticus 24:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Leviticus 24:2 · JPS 1917

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'Command the children of Israel, that they bring unto thee pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause a lamp to burn continually.

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**Who acts:** you, children, lamp · **What happens:** command, bring, beat, cause, burn · **To what, where:** children, pure olive oil, lamp · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Leviticus 24:2 · 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 (you, children, lamp), 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:710
# text = 'Command the children of Israel, that they bring unto thee pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause a lamp to burn continually.
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Command	command	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	bring	bring	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
11	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	obl	_	_
13	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	olive	olive	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
16	beaten	beat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	lamp	lamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	burn	burn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
27	continually	continually	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **command** | imperative | you *not said here* | the children of Israel |  |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent child=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **bring** | present | children *= child* | pure olive oil |  |  |  | unto thee | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent oil=Theme |
| 3 | **beat** | participle |  | pure olive oil *not said here* |  |  |  | for the light | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **cause** | to-infinitive | children *= child* *not said here* | a lamp |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **burn** | to-infinitive | a lamp *not said here* |  |  |  |  | continually *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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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צַ֞ו אֶת־בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל וְיִקְח֨וּ אֵלֶ֜יךָ שֶׁ֣מֶן זַ֥יִת זָ֛ךְ כָּתִ֖ית לַמָּא֑וֹר לְהַעֲלֹ֥ת נֵ֖ר תָּמִֽיד׃

[Leviticus 24:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.24.2/)

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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:710` 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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