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title: Leviticus 11:28 (JPS 1917) — And he that beareth the carcass of them shall wash his clothes, and… · tree and pragmatics
description: And he that beareth the carcass of them shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even; they are unclean unto you. Who acts: grasshopper, carcasses. Leviticus 11:28 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Leviticus 11:28 · JPS 1917

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And he that beareth the carcass of them shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even; they are unclean unto you.

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**Who acts:** grasshopper, carcasses · **What happens:** bear, wash, be · **To what, where:** carcass, clothes

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This is Leviticus 11:28 · 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 (grasshopper, carcasses), 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:282
# text = And he that beareth the carcass of them shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even; they are unclean unto you.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	beareth	bear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	carcass	carcass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nmod	_	_
9	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	wash	wash	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	10	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	cop	_	_
16	unclean	unclean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
17	until	until	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	even	even	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	unclean	unclean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	parataxis	_	_
24	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **bear** | present |  | the carcass of carcasses |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carcass=Patient |
| 2 | **wash** | shall | grasshopper | grasshopper's clothes |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | infinitive | grasshopper *not said here* |  |  |  | until the even | unclean *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | carcasses *= carcass* |  |  |  |  | unto you; unclean *property* | 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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וְהַנֹּשֵׂא֙ אֶת־נִבְלָתָ֔ם יְכַבֵּ֥ס בְּגָדָ֖יו וְטָמֵ֣א עַד־הָעָ֑רֶב טְמֵאִ֥ים הֵ֖מָּה לָכֶֽם׃ס

[Leviticus 11:28: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.11.28/)

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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:282` 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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