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title: Leviticus 25:20 (JPS 1917) — And if ye shall say: 'What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we… · tree and pragmatics
description: And if ye shall say: 'What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we may not sow, nor gather in our increase'; Who acts: ye, we. Leviticus 25:20 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Leviticus 25:20 · JPS 1917

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And if ye shall say: 'What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we may not sow, nor gather in our increase';

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**Who acts:** ye, we · **What happens:** say, eat, not sow, gather · **To what, where:** increase · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Leviticus 25:20 · 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 (ye, we), 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:753
# text = And if ye shall say: 'What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we may not sow, nor gather in our increase';
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nsubj	_	_
4	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
8	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	11	obj	_	_
9	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	seventh	seventh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
16	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	21	discourse	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	sow	sow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	24	cc	_	_
24	gather	gather	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	increase	increase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: express
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed form=decl, act=express

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen* | shall | ye |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **eat** | shall | we |  |  |  | year |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **sow** | may | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **gather** | infinitive | we *not said here* |  |  | our increase |  |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «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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וְכִ֣י תֹאמְר֔וּ מַה־נֹּאכַ֤֖לבַּשָּׁנָ֣ה הַשְּׁבִיעִ֑ת הֵ֚ן לֹ֣א נִזְרָ֔ע וְלֹ֥א נֶאֱסֹ֖ף אֶת־תְּבוּאָתֵֽנוּ׃

[Leviticus 25:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.25.20/)

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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:753` 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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