--- title: Leviticus 24:23 (JPS 1917) — And Moses spoke to the children of Israel, and they brought forth hi… · tree and pragmatics description: And Moses spoke to the children of Israel, and they brought forth him that had cursed out of the camp, and stoned him with stones. Who acts: Moses, children. 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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 (Moses, children), 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:732 # text = And Moses spoke to the children of Israel, and they brought forth him that had cursed out of the camp, and stoned him with stones. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 Moses Moses PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 spoke speak VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 brought bring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 13 forth forth ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 14 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 15 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 17 nsubj _ _ 16 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 cursed curse VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 14 acl:relcl _ _ 18 out out ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 camp camp NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 stoned stone VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 25 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 with with ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 stones stone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=narrate | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | Moses | | | | | to the children of Israel | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to child=Co-Agent | | 2 | **bring** | past | children *= child* | | Moses | | | forth *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | | 3 | **curse out** | past · perfect | | the camp | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent camp=Theme | | 4 | **stone** | past | children *= child* *not said here* | | Moses | | | with stones | vn pelt-17.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Destination with stone=Theme | 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} וַיְדַבֵּ֣ר מֹשֶׁה֮ אֶל־בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵל֒ וַיּוֹצִ֣יאוּ אֶת־הַֽמְקַלֵּ֗ל אֶל־מִחוּץ֙ לַֽמַּחֲנֶ֔ה וַיִּרְגְּמ֥וּ אֹת֖וֹ אָ֑בֶן וּבְנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֣ל עָשׂ֔וּ כַּֽאֲשֶׁ֛ר צִוָּ֥ה יְהוָ֖ה אֶת־מֹשֶֽׁה׃פ [Leviticus 24:23: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.24.23/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. **And Moses spoke to the children of Israel, and they brought forth him that had cursed out of the camp, and stoned him with stones.** 2. [And the children of Israel did as the LORD commanded Moses.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.733/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:LEV:732` 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 24:22 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.731/) - next →: [Leviticus 24:23 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.733/) - ↑ back to [Leviticus 24:23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.24.23/)