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title: Leviticus 27:11 (JPS 1917) — And if it be any unclean beast, of which they may not bring an offer… · tree and pragmatics
description: And if it be any unclean beast, of which they may not bring an offering unto the LORD, then he shall set the beast before the priest. Who acts: priest, means, man. Leviticus 27:11 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Leviticus 27:11 · JPS 1917

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And if it be any unclean beast, of which they may not bring an offering unto the LORD, then he shall set the beast before the priest.

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**Who acts:** priest, means, man · **What happens:** be, not bring, set · **To what, where:** unclean beast, offering, beast, priest

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This is Leviticus 27:11 · 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 (priest, means, man), 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:845
# text = And if it be any unclean beast, of which they may not bring an offering unto the LORD, then he shall set the beast before the priest.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
5	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
6	unclean	unclean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	advcl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	obl	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl:relcl	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	offering	offering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
21	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	before	before	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- hedged: yes
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen* | infinitive | priest | any unclean beast |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **bring** | may | means | a offering |  |  |  | of any unclean beast; unto the LORD | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent offering=Theme of which=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **set** | shall | man | the beast |  | the priest | then |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent beast=Theme before priest=Destination |

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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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וְאִם֙ כָּל־בְּהֵמָ֣ה טְמֵאָ֔ה אֲ֠שֶׁר לֹא־יַקְרִ֧יבוּ מִמֶּ֛נָּה קָרְבָּ֖ן לַֽיהוָ֑ה וְהֶֽעֱמִ֥יד אֶת־הַבְּהֵמָ֖ה לִפְנֵ֥י הַכֹּהֵֽן׃

[Leviticus 27:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.27.11/)

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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:845` 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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