--- title: Leviticus 27:10 (JPS 1917) — He shall not alter it, nor change it, a good for a bad, or a bad for… · tree and pragmatics description: He shall not alter it, nor change it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good; and if he shall at all change beast for beast, then both it and that for which it is changed shall be holy. Who acts: man, priest. 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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 (man, priest), 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:844 # text = He shall not alter it, nor change it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good; and if he shall at all change beast for beast, then both it and that for which it is changed shall be holy. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 alter alter VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 8 cc _ _ 8 change change VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 obj _ _ 13 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 or or CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 conj _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 obl _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 47 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 25 if if SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 26 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 27 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 28 at at ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 28 obl _ _ 30 change change VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 47 advcl _ _ 31 beast beast NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 32 for for ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 beast beast NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 35 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 37 advmod _ _ 36 both both CCONJ CC _ 37 cc:preconj _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 47 nsubj _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 37 conj _ _ 40 for for ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 44 obl _ _ 42 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj:pass _ _ 43 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 44 aux:pass _ _ 44 changed change VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 39 acl:relcl _ _ 45 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 47 aux _ _ 46 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 47 cop _ _ 47 holy holy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 48 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **not** **alter** | shall | man | priest | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 2 | **change** | infinitive | man *not said here* | priest | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **change** *a condition, not said to happen* | shall | man | beast | | | | for beast | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent beast=Theme for beast=Co-Theme | | 4 | **change** | present · passive | | priest | | | | | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: subject=Theme for which=Co-Theme | | 5 | **is** | shall | priest | | | | | holy *property* | 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} לֹ֣א יַחֲלִיפֶ֗נּוּ וְלֹֽא־יָמִ֥יר אֹת֛וֹ ט֥וֹב בְּרָ֖ע אוֹ־רַ֣ע בְּט֑וֹב וְאִם־הָמֵ֨ר יָמִ֤יר בְּהֵמָה֙ בִּבְהֵמָ֔ה וְהָֽיָה־ה֥וּא וּתְמוּרָת֖וֹ יִֽהְיֶה־קֹּֽדֶשׁ׃ [Leviticus 27:10: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.27.10/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:LEV:844` 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 27:9 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.843/) - next →: [Leviticus 27:11 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.845/) - ↑ back to [Leviticus 27:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.27.10/)