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title: Leviticus 25:44 (JPS 1917) — And as for thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, whom thou mayest have: of… · tree and pragmatics
description: And as for thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, whom thou mayest have: of the nations that are round about you, of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids. Who acts: thou, nations, ye. Leviticus 25:44 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Leviticus 25:44 · JPS 1917

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And as for thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, whom thou mayest have: of the nations that are round about you, of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids.

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**Who acts:** thou, nations, ye · **What happens:** have, be, buy · **To what, where:** bondmen

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This is Leviticus 25:44 · 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 (thou, nations, ye), 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:777
# text = And as for thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, whom thou mayest have: of the nations that are round about you, of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
2	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	fixed	_	_
4	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	bondmen	bondman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	bondmaids	bondmaid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	obj	_	_
12	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nsubj	_	_
13	mayest	may	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl:relcl	_	_
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	nations	nation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	round	round	ADV	RB	_	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	about	about	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obl	_	_
27	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	29	nsubj	_	_
29	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
30	bondmen	bondman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	bondmaids	bondmaid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	conj	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | may | thou | thy bondmen and thy bondmaids |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | the nations |  |  |  |  | about you; round *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **buy** | shall | ye | bondmen and bondmaids |  |  |  | as thy bondmen and thy bondmaids; of the nations; of bondmen *= bondman* | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bondman=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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וְעַבְדְּךָ֥ וַאֲמָתְךָ֖ אֲשֶׁ֣ר יִהְיוּ־לָ֑ךְ מֵאֵ֣ת הַגּוֹיִ֗ם אֲשֶׁר֙ סְבִיבֹ֣תֵיכֶ֔ם מֵהֶ֥ם תִּקְנ֖וּ עֶ֥בֶד וְאָמָֽה׃

[Leviticus 25:44: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.25.44/)

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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:777` 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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