--- title: Leviticus 26:37 (JPS 1917) — And they shall stumble one upon another, as it were before the sword… · tree and pragmatics description: And they shall stumble one upon another, as it were before the sword, when none pursueth; and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies. Who acts: sabbaths, sound, none, ye. 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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 (sabbaths, sound, none, 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:825 # text = And they shall stumble one upon another, as it were before the sword, when none pursueth; and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 stumble stumble VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 one one PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obl:unmarked _ _ 6 upon upon ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 4 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 9 as as SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 11 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 12 before before ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 advcl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 when when SCONJ WRB _ 18 mark _ _ 17 none none PRON NN PronType=Neg 18 nsubj _ _ 18 pursueth pursue VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 23 nsubj _ _ 22 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 24 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 25 det _ _ 25 power power NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 stand stand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 acl _ _ 28 before before ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 enemies enemy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stumble** | shall | sabbaths *= sabbath* | one | | another | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon another=Trajectory | | 2 | **is** | past | sound | | | | before the sword | | tree rules | | 3 | **pursue** | present | none | | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **have** | shall | ye | no power | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient | | 5 | **stand** | to-infinitive | ye *not said here* | no power *not said here* | | your enemies | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before enemy=Location | 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} וְכָשְׁל֧וּ אִישׁ־בְּאָחִ֛יו כְּמִפְּנֵי־חֶ֖רֶב וְרֹדֵ֣ף אָ֑יִן וְלֹא־תִֽהְיֶ֤ה לָכֶם֙ תְּקוּמָ֔ה לִפְנֵ֖י אֹֽיְבֵיכֶֽם׃ [Leviticus 26:37: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.26.37/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:LEV:825` 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 26:36 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.824/) - next →: [Leviticus 26:38 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.826/) - ↑ back to [Leviticus 26:37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.26.37/)