--- title: Leviticus 25:2 (JPS 1917) — Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them: When ye come i… · tree and pragmatics description: Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them: When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath unto the LORD. Who acts: you, ye, I, land. 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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 (you, ye, I, land), 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:735 # text = Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them: When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath unto the LORD. 1 Speak speak VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 unto unto ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obl _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 say say VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 10 unto unto ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obl _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 13 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 15 advmod _ _ 14 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 15 nsubj _ _ 15 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ _ 16 into into ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 21 obj _ _ 20 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 give give VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 acl:relcl _ _ 22 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs 21 iobj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 24 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 28 advmod _ _ 25 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 ccomp _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 sabbath sabbath NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 unto unto ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | unto the children of Israel | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | unto children *= child* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **come** | present | ye | | | the land | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into land=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **give** | present | I | the land | you | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient which=Theme | | 5 | **keep** | shall | the land | a sabbath | | | then | unto the LORD | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sabbath=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} דַּבֵּ֞ר אֶל־בְּנֵ֤י יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ וְאָמַרְתָּ֣ אֲלֵהֶ֔ם כִּ֤י תָבֹ֙אוּ֙ אֶל־הָאָ֔רֶץ אֲשֶׁ֥ר אֲנִ֖י נֹתֵ֣ן לָכֶ֑ם וְשָׁבְתָ֣ה הָאָ֔רֶץ שַׁבָּ֖ת לַיהוָֽה׃ [Leviticus 25:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.25.2/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:LEV:735` 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 25:1 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.734/) - next →: [Leviticus 25:3 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.736/) - ↑ back to [Leviticus 25:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.25.2/)