--- title: Leviticus 6:20 (JPS 1917) — Whatsoever shall touch the flesh thereof shall be holy; and when the… · tree and pragmatics description: Whatsoever shall touch the flesh thereof shall be holy; and when there is sprinkled of the blood thereof upon any garment, thou shalt wash that whereon it was sprinkled in a holy place. Who acts: Whatsoever, thou. 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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 (Whatsoever, 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = jps:LEV:131 # text = Whatsoever shall touch the flesh thereof shall be holy; and when there is sprinkled of the blood thereof upon any garment, thou shalt wash that whereon it was sprinkled in a holy place. 1 Whatsoever whatsoever PRON WP PronType=Ind 3 nsubj _ _ 2 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 touch touch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 csubj _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 flesh flesh NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 thereof thereof ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 8 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 9 cop _ _ 9 holy holy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 12 when when SCONJ WRB _ 15 mark _ _ 13 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 15 expl _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux:pass _ _ 15 sprinkled sprinkle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 advcl _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 thereof thereof ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 20 upon upon ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 22 det _ _ 22 garment garment NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 26 nsubj _ _ 25 shalt shall AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 wash wash VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 27 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 26 obj _ _ 28 whereon whereon ADV WRB PronType=Rel 31 advmod _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj:pass _ _ 30 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux:pass _ _ 31 sprinkled sprinkle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 acl:relcl _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 holy holy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **touch** | shall | Whatsoever | the flesh | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme flesh=Co-Theme | | 2 | **is** | shall | | | | | | holy *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **sprinkle** | present · passive | thou *not said here* | | | any garment; there | | of the blood | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: upon garment=Destination | | 4 | **wash** | shall | thou | that | | | | | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient | | 5 | **sprinkle** | past · passive | | flesh | | a holy place | | whereon *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in place=Destination | 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} כֹּ֛ל אֲשֶׁר־יִגַּ֥ע בִּבְשָׂרָ֖הּ יִקְדָּ֑שׁ וַאֲשֶׁ֨ר יִזֶּ֤ה מִדָּמָהּ֙ עַל־הַבֶּ֔גֶד אֲשֶׁר֙ יִזֶּ֣ה עָלֶ֔יהָ תְּכַבֵּ֖ס בְּמָק֥וֹם קָדֹֽשׁ׃ [Leviticus 6:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.6.20/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:LEV:131` 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. - ← previous: [Leviticus 6:19 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.130/) - next →: [Leviticus 6:21 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.132/) - ↑ back to [Leviticus 6:20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.6.20/)