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title: Leviticus 25:32 (JPS 1917) — But as for the cities of the Levites, the houses of the cities of th… · tree and pragmatics
description: But as for the cities of the Levites, the houses of the cities of their possession, the Levites shall have a perpetual right of redemption. Who acts: Levites. Leviticus 25:32 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Leviticus 25:32 · JPS 1917

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But as for the cities of the Levites, the houses of the cities of their possession, the Levites shall have a perpetual right of redemption.

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**Who acts:** Levites · **What happens:** have, possess · **To what, where:** perpetual right

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This is Leviticus 25:32 · 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 (Levites), 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:765
# text = But as for the cities of the Levites, the houses of the cities of their possession, the Levites shall have a perpetual right of redemption.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
2	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	2	fixed	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Levites	levite	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	appos	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	possession	possession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Levites	levite	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
21	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	perpetual	perpetual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	right	right	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	redemption	redemption	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | shall | the Levites | a perpetual right of redemption |  |  |  | as the cities of the Levites | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Patient |
| 2 | **possess** |  | Levites *= levite* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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וְעָרֵי֙ הַלְוִיִּ֔ם בָּתֵּ֖י עָרֵ֣י אֲחֻזָּתָ֑ם גְּאֻלַּ֥ת עוֹלָ֖ם תִּהְיֶ֥ה לַלְוִיִּֽם׃

[Leviticus 25:32: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.25.32/)

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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:765` 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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