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title: Leviticus 27:26 (JPS 1917) — Howbeit the firstling among beasts, which is born as a firstling to… · tree and pragmatics
description: Howbeit the firstling among beasts, which is born as a firstling to the LORD, no man shall sanctify it; whether it be ox or sheep, it is the LORD'S. Who acts: man, firstling. Leviticus 27:26 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Leviticus 27:26 · JPS 1917

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Howbeit the firstling among beasts, which is born as a firstling to the LORD, no man shall sanctify it; whether it be ox or sheep, it is the LORD'S.

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**Who acts:** man, firstling · **What happens:** bear, sanctify, be · **To what, where:** firstling, ox

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This is Leviticus 27:26 · 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, firstling), 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:860
# text = Howbeit the firstling among beasts, which is born as a firstling to the LORD, no man shall sanctify it; whether it be ox or sheep, it is the LORD'S.
1	Howbeit	howbeit	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	firstling	firstling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	dislocated	_	_
4	among	among	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl:relcl	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	firstling	firstling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
17	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	18	det	_	_
18	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	sanctify	sanctify	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
23	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	cop	_	_
26	ox	ox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	advcl	_	_
27	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	parataxis	_	_
34	'S	's	PART	POS	_	33	case	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | present · passive |  | the firstling among beasts |  |  |  | as a firstling to the LORD | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **sanctify** | shall | no man | firstling |  |  |  | the firstling among beasts *dislocated* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | infinitive | firstling | ox or sheep |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | firstling |  |  |  |  | 's the LORD | 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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אַךְ־בְּכ֞וֹר אֲשֶׁר־יְבֻכַּ֤ר לַֽיהוָה֙ בִּבְהֵמָ֔ה לֹֽא־יַקְדִּ֥ישׁ אִ֖ישׁ אֹת֑וֹ אִם־שׁ֣וֹר אִם־שֶׂ֔ה לַֽיהוָ֖ה הֽוּא׃

[Leviticus 27:26: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.27.26/)

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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:860` 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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