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title: Leviticus 5:3 — or if he touch the uncleanness of man, whatsoever his uncleanness be… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics
description: or if he touch the uncleanness of man, whatsoever his uncleanness be wherewith he is unclean, and it be hid from him; and, when he knoweth of it, be guilty; Who acts: he, uncleanness, man, you. Leviticus 5:3 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Onkelos, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Leviticus 5:3 וַיִּקְרָא

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**Who acts:** he, uncleanness, man, you · **What happens:** touch, be, hide, know · **To what, where:** uncleanness, whatsoever

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This is Leviticus 5:3 from Mova's open Bible corpus, the Tanakh in three languages (The Torah). The page gives the verse in Hebrew as the Westminster Leningrad Codex has it, its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, built from MACULA Hebrew — and its pragmatics: who acts — he, uncleanness, man, you — and what happens in the verse to uncleanness, whatsoever, read clause by clause by Mova's frames. Beside it stand the Aramaic of Targum Onkelos and the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, each English sentence with a tree of its own. It is one of the 27 chapters of Leviticus on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between.

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א֣וֹ כִ֤י יִגַּע֙ בְּטֻמְאַ֣ת אָדָ֔ם לְכֹל֙ טֻמְאָת֔וֹ אֲשֶׁ֥ר יִטְמָ֖א בָּ֑הּ וְנֶעְלַ֣ם מִמֶּ֔נּוּ וְה֥וּא יָדַ֖ע וְאָשֵֽׁם׃

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[or if he touch the uncleanness of man, whatsoever his uncleanness be wherewith he is unclean, and it be hid from him; and, when he knoweth of it, be guilty;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.87/)

## The tree {#tree}

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Right to left, as the Hebrew is read; a prefix or suffix is a word of its own, and a line under the words joins those written as one. Under each word its part of speech and MACULA's English gloss.

```conllu rtl gloss
# sent_id = wlc:LEV:87
# text = א֣וֹ כִ֤י יִגַּע֙ בְּטֻמְאַ֣ת אָדָ֔ם לְכֹל֙ טֻמְאָת֔וֹ אֲשֶׁ֥ר יִטְמָ֖א בָּ֑הּ וְנֶעְלַ֣ם מִמֶּ֔נּוּ וְה֥וּא יָדַ֖ע וְאָשֵֽׁם׃
# verse = LEV.5.3
1	א֣וֹ	אוֹ	CCONJ	_	_	3	cc	_	Gloss=or|Ref=LEV_5:3!1|MId=o030050030011|Strong=0176
2	כִ֤י	כִּי	SCONJ	_	_	3	mark	_	Gloss=(dm)|Ref=LEV_5:3!2|MId=o030050030021|Strong=3588
3	יִגַּע֙	נָגַע	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3	0	root	_	Gloss=he.will.touch|Ref=LEV_5:3!3|MId=o030050030031|Strong=5060|Frame=A0:030050020021;|Type=yiqtol
4-5	בְּטֻמְאַ֣ת	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
4	בְּ	בְּ	ADP	_	_	5	case	_	Gloss=(in).[the]|Ref=LEV_5:3!4|MId=o030050030041|Strong=0871a
5	טֻמְאַ֣ת	טֻמְאָה	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	3	obl	_	Gloss=uncleanness|Ref=LEV_5:3!4|MId=o030050030042|Strong=2932
6	אָדָ֔ם	אָדָם	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	5	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=of.a.human|Ref=LEV_5:3!5|MId=o030050030051|Strong=0120
7-8	לְכֹל֙	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
7	לְ	לְ	ADP	_	_	8	case	_	Gloss=to|Ref=LEV_5:3!6|MId=o030050030061|Strong=3807a
8	כֹל֙	כֹּל	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	3	obl	_	Gloss=all|Ref=LEV_5:3!6|MId=o030050030062|Strong=3605
9-10	טֻמְאָת֔וֹ	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
9	טֻמְאָת	טֻמְאָה	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	8	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=uncleanness|Ref=LEV_5:3!7|MId=o030050030071|Strong=2932
10	֔וֹ	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	Gloss=his|Ref=LEV_5:3!7|MId=o030050030072|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal
11	אֲשֶׁ֥ר	אֲשֶׁר	SCONJ	_	_	12	mark	_	Gloss=which|Ref=LEV_5:3!8|MId=o030050030081|Strong=0834|Type=relative
12	יִטְמָ֖א	טָמֵא	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3	8	acl:relcl	_	Gloss=he.will.be.unclean|Ref=LEV_5:3!9|MId=o030050030091|Strong=2930|Frame=A0:030050030051;|Type=yiqtol
13-14	בָּ֑הּ	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
13	בּ	בְּ	ADP	_	_	14	case	_	Gloss=by|Ref=LEV_5:3!10|MId=o030050030101|Strong=0871a
14	ָ֑הּ	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	Gloss=it|Ref=LEV_5:3!10|MId=o030050030102|Strong=1886d|Type=pronominal
15-16	וְנֶעְלַ֣ם	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
15	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	16	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=LEV_5:3!11|MId=o030050030111|Strong=2050b
16	נֶעְלַ֣ם	עָלַם	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=NIPHAL|Number=Sing|Person=3	3	conj	_	Gloss=it.will.be.hidden|Ref=LEV_5:3!11|MId=o030050030112|Strong=5956|Frame=A1:030050030031;|Type=weqatal
17-18	מִמֶּ֔נּוּ	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
17	מִמּ	מִן	ADP	_	_	18	case	_	Gloss=from|Ref=LEV_5:3!12|MId=o030050030121|Strong=4480
18	ֶ֔נּוּ	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Com|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	Gloss=him|Ref=LEV_5:3!12|MId=o030050030122|Strong=5105b|Type=pronominal
19-20	וְה֥וּא	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
19	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	21	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=LEV_5:3!13|MId=o030050030131|Strong=2050b
20	ה֥וּא	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	Gloss=he|Ref=LEV_5:3!13|MId=o030050030132|Strong=1931|Type=personal
21	יָדַ֖ע	יָדַע	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3	3	conj	_	Gloss=he.knew|Ref=LEV_5:3!14|MId=o030050030141|Strong=3045|Frame=A0:030050030132;|Type=qatal
22-23	וְאָשֵֽׁם	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
22	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	23	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=LEV_5:3!15|MId=o030050030151|Strong=2050b
23	אָשֵֽׁם	אָשַׁם	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3	21	conj	_	Gloss=he.will.be.guilty|Ref=LEV_5:3!15|MId=o030050030152|Strong=0816|Frame=A0:030050020021;|Type=weqatal
24	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	_	23	punct	_	Ref=LEV_5:3!15
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- speech: narration
- negation: no

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| verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| יִגַּע *he will touch* | yiqtol · qal |  |  |  |  |
| יִטְמָא *he will be unclean* | yiqtol · qal | אָדָם *of a human* |  |  |  |
| נֶעְלַם *it will be hidden* | weqatal · niphal |  | יִגַּע *he will touch* |  |  |
| יָדַע *he knew* | qatal · qal | הוּא *he* |  |  |  |
| אָשֵֽׁם *he will be guilty* | weqatal · qal |  |  |  |  |

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MACULA's semantic frames: for each verb the head word of each participant. A0 is the one who acts, A1 what the act is done to or is about, A2 a further participant; AA, with a causative verb, the one who makes it happen.

## Targum Onkelos {#onkelos}

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אוֹ אֲרֵי יִקְרַב בְּסוֹאֲבַת אֱנָשָׁא לְכָל סוֹבְתֵהּ דִי יִסְתָּאַב בַּהּ וִיהֵי מְכַסָא מִנֵהּ וְהוּא יְדַע וְחָב

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The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet.

## English, JPS 1917 {#english}

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Each sentence on its own page, with its tree and pragmatics. A sentence that runs on into the next verse is listed under the verse it begins in.

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1. [or if he touch the uncleanness of man, whatsoever his uncleanness be wherewith he is unclean, and it be hid from him; and, when he knoweth of it, be guilty;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.87/)

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**Hebrew text:** Westminster Leningrad Codex, public domain. **Tree, glosses and frames:** MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets, available at [github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew](https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew/), [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); converted to Universal Dependencies by Mova (words in text order, a prefix its own word). **Speech act:** Mova's rules on the MACULA words (`macula prag`). **Targum:** Onkelos (Torat Emet), Jonathan and the Writings (Mikraot Gedolot), from Sefaria, public domain.

**English:** JPS 1917, public domain; trees and speech acts by Mova's cycle, frames by Mova's reader (Elamur Cosmic License).

Hebrew sentence `wlc:LEV:87`.

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