--- title: Leviticus 25:53 (JPS 1917) — As a servant hired year by year shall he be with him; he shall not r… · tree and pragmatics description: As a servant hired year by year shall he be with him; he shall not rule with rigour over him in thy sight. Who acts: brother, thy. 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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, thy), 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:786 # text = As a servant hired year by year shall he be with him; he shall not rule with rigour over him in thy sight. 1 As as SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 servant servant NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 advcl _ _ 4 hired hire VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl _ _ 5 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl:unmarked _ _ 6 by by ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 9 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 10 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 12 cop _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 0 root _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 15 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 17 rule rule VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 parataxis _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 rigour rigour NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 20 over over ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obl _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hire** | participle | | a servant *not said here* | | | year | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | shall | brother | | | | | with brother | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **rule** | shall | brother | | | thy sight | | with rigour; over son | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **sight** | | thy | | | | | | nom sight «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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} כִּשְׂכִ֥יר שָׁנָ֛ה בְּשָׁנָ֖ה יִהְיֶ֣ה עִמּ֑וֹ לֹֽא־יִרְדֶּ֥נּֽוּ בְּפֶ֖רֶךְ לְעֵינֶֽיךָ׃ [Leviticus 25:53: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.25.53/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:LEV:786` 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. - ← previous: [Leviticus 25:52 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.785/) - next →: [Leviticus 25:54 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.787/) - ↑ back to [Leviticus 25:53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.25.53/)