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title: Leviticus 27:16 (JPS 1917) — And if a man shall sanctify unto the LORD part of the field of his p… · tree and pragmatics
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# Leviticus 27:16 · JPS 1917

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And if a man shall sanctify unto the LORD part of the field of his possession, then thy valuation shall be according to the sowing thereof; the sowing of a homer of barley shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.

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**Who acts:** man, valuation, thy, barley · **What happens:** sanctify, be, value, possess, valuate, homer · **To what, where:** LORD part, sowing, fifty shekels

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This is Leviticus 27:16 · 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 (man, valuation, thy, barley), 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:850
# text = And if a man shall sanctify unto the LORD part of the field of his possession, then thy valuation shall be according to the sowing thereof; the sowing of a homer of barley shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	sanctify	sanctify	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
7	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	possession	possession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
18	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	_
19	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	valuation	valuation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
21	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	cop	_	_
23	according	accord	ADP	VBG	_	26	case	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	fixed	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	sowing	sowing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
27	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	38	punct	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	sowing	sowing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	homer	homer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	barley	barley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
36	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
37	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	aux:pass	_	_
38	valued	value	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	parataxis	_	_
39	at	at	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	41	nummod	_	_
41	shekels	shekel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sanctify** *a condition, not said to happen* | shall | a man | the LORD part of the field of man's possession |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | shall | thy valuation |  |  |  | then | accord the sowing; thereof *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **value** | shall · passive |  | the sowing of a homer of barley |  | fifty shekels of silver |  |  | vn price-54.4 «NP V NP PP.value»: subject=Theme at shekel=Value |
| 4 | **possess** |  | man |  |  |  |  |  | nom possession «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **valuate** |  | thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom valuation «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **homer** |  | barley |  |  |  |  |  | nom homer «act intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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וְאִ֣ם ׀ מִשְּׂדֵ֣ה אֲחֻזָּת֗וֹ יַקְדִּ֥ישׁ אִישׁ֙ לַֽיהוָ֔ה וְהָיָ֥ה עֶרְכְּךָ֖ לְפִ֣י זַרְע֑וֹ זֶ֚רַע חֹ֣מֶר שְׂעֹרִ֔ים בַּחֲמִשִּׁ֖ים שֶׁ֥קֶל כָּֽסֶף׃

[Leviticus 27:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.27.16/)

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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:850` 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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