--- title: Leviticus 26:1 (JPS 1917) — Ye shall make you no idols, neither shall ye rear you up a graven im… · tree and pragmatics description: Ye shall make you no idols, neither shall ye rear you up a graven image, or a pillar, neither shall ye place any figured stone in your land, to bow down unto it; for I am the LORD your God. Who acts: Ye, I. 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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 (Ye, I), 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:789 # text = Ye shall make you no idols, neither shall ye rear you up a graven image, or a pillar, neither shall ye place any figured stone in your land, to bow down unto it; for I am the LORD your God. 1 Ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 3 nsubj _ _ 2 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 iobj _ _ 5 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 6 det _ _ 6 idols idol NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 neither neither CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 11 cc _ _ 9 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 10 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 11 nsubj _ _ 11 rear rear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 12 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 11 iobj _ _ 13 up up ADV RP _ 11 compound:prt _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 graven grave ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 image image NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 or or CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 pillar pillar NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 neither neither CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 25 cc _ _ 23 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 25 nsubj _ _ 25 place place VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 26 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 28 det _ _ 27 figured figure VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 amod _ _ 28 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 bow bow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 advcl _ _ 35 down down ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 36 unto unto ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obl _ _ 38 ; ; PUNCT : _ 43 punct _ _ 39 for for SCONJ IN _ 43 mark _ _ 40 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 41 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 cop _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 44 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 45 nmod:poss _ _ 45 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 appos _ _ 46 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | shall | Ye | no idols | you | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset you=Beneficiary idol=Product | | 2 | **rear up** | shall | ye | a graven image or a pillar | you | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **place** | shall | ye | any figured stone | | your land | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent stone=Theme in land=Destination | | 4 | **figure** | participle | | | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **bow down** | to-infinitive | ye *not said here* | | | | | unto land; down *property* | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is a** | present | I | the LORD | | | | | tree rules | 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} לֹֽא־תַעֲשׂ֨וּ לָכֶ֜ם אֱלִילִ֗ם וּפֶ֤סֶל וּמַצֵּבָה֙ לֹֽא־תָקִ֣ימוּ לָכֶ֔ם וְאֶ֣בֶן מַשְׂכִּ֗ית לֹ֤א תִתְּנוּ֙ בְּאַרְצְכֶ֔ם לְהִֽשְׁתַּחֲוֺ֖ת עָלֶ֑יהָ כִּ֛י אֲנִ֥י יְהוָ֖ה אֱלֹהֵיכֶֽם׃ [Leviticus 26:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.26.1/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:LEV:789` 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 25:55 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.788/) - next →: [Leviticus 26:2 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.790/) - ↑ back to [Leviticus 26:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.26.1/)