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title: Leviticus 27:20 (JPS 1917) — And if he will not redeem the field, or if he have sold the field to… · tree and pragmatics
description: And if he will not redeem the field, or if he have sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed any more. Who acts: man. Leviticus 27:20 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Leviticus 27:20 · JPS 1917

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And if he will not redeem the field, or if he have sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed any more.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** not redeem, sell · **To what, where:** field, man

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This is Leviticus 27:20 · 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), 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:854
# text = And if he will not redeem the field, or if he have sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed any more.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	redeem	redeem	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	sold	sell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
19	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	redeemed	redeem	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
26	any	any	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	25	advmod	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **not** **redeem** *a condition, not said to happen* | future | man | the field |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent field=Theme |
| 2 | **sell** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · perfect | man | the field | another man |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent field=Theme to man=Recipient |
| 3 | **not** **redeem** | shall · passive |  | field |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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וְאִם־לֹ֤א יִגְאַל֙ אֶת־הַשָּׂדֶ֔ה וְאִם־מָכַ֥ר אֶת־הַשָּׂדֶ֖ה לְאִ֣ישׁ אַחֵ֑ר לֹ֥א יִגָּאֵ֖ל עֽוֹד׃

[Leviticus 27:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.27.20/)

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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:854` 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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