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title: Leviticus 25:33 (JPS 1917) — And if a man purchase of the Levites, then the house that was sold i… · tree and pragmatics
description: And if a man purchase of the Levites, then the house that was sold in the city of his possession, shall go out in the jubilee; for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel. Who acts: man, house, houses. Leviticus 25:33 in JPS 1917 with its dependency 
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# Leviticus 25:33 · JPS 1917

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And if a man purchase of the Levites, then the house that was sold in the city of his possession, shall go out in the jubilee; for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel.

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**Who acts:** man, house, houses · **What happens:** purchase, sell, go out, be, possess · **To what, where:** house, city, jubilee, possession

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This is Leviticus 25:33 · 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 (man, house, houses), 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:766
# text = And if a man purchase of the Levites, then the house that was sold in the city of his possession, shall go out in the jubilee; for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	purchase	purchase	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
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	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
10	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	sold	sell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	possession	possession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
23	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
25	out	out	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	jubilee	jubilee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	41	punct	_	_
30	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nsubj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	Levites	levite	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	35	nmod	_	_
39	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
40	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	possession	possession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	advcl	_	_
42	among	among	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nmod	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **purchase** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a man |  |  |  |  | of the Levites | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **sell** | past · passive |  | the house |  | the city of man's possession |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **go out** | shall | the house |  |  | the jubilee |  | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | present | the houses of the cities of the Levites | Levites's possession |  |  |  | among the children of Israel | tree rules |
| 5 | **possess** |  | man |  |  |  |  |  | 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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וַאֲשֶׁ֤ר יִגְאַל֙ מִן־הַלְוִיִּ֔ם וְיָצָ֧א מִמְכַּר־בַּ֛יִת וְעִ֥יר אֲחֻזָּת֖וֹ בַּיֹּבֵ֑ל כִּ֣י בָתֵּ֞י עָרֵ֣י הַלְוִיִּ֗ם הִ֚וא אֲחֻזָּתָ֔ם בְּת֖וֹךְ בְּנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

[Leviticus 25:33: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.25.33/)

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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:766` of Mova's parse database.

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