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title: Leviticus 24:18 (JPS 1917) — And he that smiteth a beast mortally shall make it good: life for li… · tree and pragmatics
description: And he that smiteth a beast mortally shall make it good: life for life. Who acts: LORD. Leviticus 24:18 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Leviticus 24:18 · JPS 1917

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And he that smiteth a beast mortally shall make it good: life for life.

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**Who acts:** LORD · **What happens:** smite, make · **To what, where:** beast

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This is Leviticus 24:18 · 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 (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:727
# text = And he that smiteth a beast mortally shall make it good: life for life.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	smiteth	smite	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	mortally	mortally	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
8	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
13	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	parataxis	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smite** | present |  | a beast |  |  |  | mortally *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus beast=Experiencer |
| 2 | **make** | shall | LORD | beast |  |  |  | good *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product |

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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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וּמַכֵּ֥ה נֶֽפֶשׁ־בְּהֵמָ֖ה יְשַׁלְּמֶ֑נָּה נֶ֖פֶשׁ תַּ֥חַת נָֽפֶשׁ׃

[Leviticus 24:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.24.18/)

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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:727` 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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