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title: Leviticus 27:21 (JPS 1917) — But the field, when it goeth out in the jubilee, shall be holy unto… · tree and pragmatics
description: But the field, when it goeth out in the jubilee, shall be holy unto the LORD, as a field devoted; the possession thereof shall be the priest's. Who acts: field, possession. Leviticus 27:21 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Leviticus 27:21 · JPS 1917

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But the field, when it goeth out in the jubilee, shall be holy unto the LORD, as a field devoted; the possession thereof shall be the priest's.

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**Who acts:** field, possession · **What happens:** go out, be, devote · **To what, where:** jubilee, field

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This is Leviticus 27:21 · 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 (field, possession), 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:855
# text = But the field, when it goeth out in the jubilee, shall be holy unto the LORD, as a field devoted; the possession thereof shall be the priest's.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	7	mark	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	goeth	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	jubilee	jubilee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
13	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	cop	_	_
15	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
16	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	devoted	devote	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	advcl	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	possession	possession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
27	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	cop	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	parataxis	_	_
32	's	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	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 | **go out** | present | field |  |  | the jubilee |  |  | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | shall | the field |  |  |  |  | unto the LORD; holy *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **devote** | participle · passive |  | a field |  |  |  |  | vn dedicate-79 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | shall | the possession |  |  |  |  | 's the priest | tree rules |

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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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וְהָיָ֨ה הַשָּׂדֶ֜ה בְּצֵאת֣וֹ בַיֹּבֵ֗ל קֹ֛דֶשׁ לַֽיהוָ֖ה כִּשְׂדֵ֣ה הַחֵ֑רֶם לַכֹּהֵ֖ן תִּהְיֶ֥ה אֲחֻזָּתֽוֹ׃

[Leviticus 27:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.27.21/)

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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:855` 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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