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title: Leviticus 25:25 (JPS 1917) — If thy brother be waxen poor, and sell some of his possession, then… · tree and pragmatics
description: If thy brother be waxen poor, and sell some of his possession, then shall his kinsman that is next unto him come, and shall redeem that which his brother hath sold. Who acts: brother, kinsman, LORD. Leviticus 25:25 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Leviticus 25:25 · JPS 1917

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If thy brother be waxen poor, and sell some of his possession, then shall his kinsman that is next unto him come, and shall redeem that which his brother hath sold.

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**Who acts:** brother, kinsman, LORD · **What happens:** be, sell, come, redeem, possess · **To what, where:** some, that

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This is Leviticus 25:25 · 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 (brother, kinsman, 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:758
# text = If thy brother be waxen poor, and sell some of his possession, then shall his kinsman that is next unto him come, and shall redeem that which his brother hath sold.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
5	waxen	waxen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
6	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	advcl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	sell	sell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
10	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	possession	possession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
15	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	_
16	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	kinsman	kinsman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
24	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	redeem	redeem	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	_
29	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	obj	_	_
30	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	obj	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
33	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	sold	sell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	acl:relcl	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | infinitive | thy brother |  |  |  |  | poor *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **sell** | infinitive | thy brother *not said here* | some |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | LORD's kinsman |  |  |  |  | unto kinsman; next *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **come** | shall | LORD's kinsman |  |  |  | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **redeem** | shall | LORD's kinsman *not said here* | that |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme |
| 6 | **sell** | present · perfect | kinsman's brother |  |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme |
| 7 | **possess** |  | LORD |  |  |  |  |  | nom possession «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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כִּֽי־יָמ֣וּךְ אָחִ֔יךָ וּמָכַ֖ר מֵאֲחֻזָּת֑וֹ וּבָ֤א גֹֽאֲלוֹ֙ הַקָּרֹ֣ב אֵלָ֔יו וְגָאַ֕ל אֵ֖ת מִמְכַּ֥ר אָחִֽיו׃

[Leviticus 25:25: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.25.25/)

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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:758` 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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