Leviticus 18:18 · JPS 1917

And thou shalt not take a woman to her sister, to be a rival to her, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her lifetime.

Who acts: thou · What happens: not take, be, uncover · To what, where: woman, sister, rival, wife, nakedness, other

This is Leviticus 18:18 · 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 (thou), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 take	cc
2	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	5 take	nsubj
3	shalt	shall	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	5 take	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 take	advmod
5	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 woman	det
7	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 take	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 sister	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 sister	nmod:poss
10	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 take	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 rival	punct
12	to	to	PART	_	15 rival	mark
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 rival	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 rival	det
15	rival	rival	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 take	advcl
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 her	case
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 rival	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 uncover	punct
19	to	to	PART	_	20 uncover	mark
20	uncover	uncover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 take	advcl
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 nakedness	nmod:poss
22	nakedness	nakedness	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 uncover	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 other	punct
24	beside	beside	ADP	_	26 other	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 other	det
26	other	other	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 nakedness	nmod
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 lifetime	case
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 lifetime	nmod:poss
29	lifetime	lifetime	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 other	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 take	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	not take	shall	thou	a woman	wife's sister		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent woman=Theme to sister=Destination
2	is a	to-infinitive	thou not said here	a rival	wife		tree rules
3	uncover	to-infinitive	thou not said here	wife's nakedness		the other in wife's lifetime	tree rules

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

וְאִשָּׁ֥ה אֶל־אֲחֹתָ֖הּ לֹ֣א תִקָּ֑ח לִצְרֹ֗ר לְגַלּ֧וֹת עֶרְוָתָ֛הּ עָלֶ֖יהָ בְּחַיֶּֽיהָ׃

Leviticus 18:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →

Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:LEV:529 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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