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title: Leviticus 11:38 (JPS 1917) — But if water be put upon the seed, and aught of their carcass fall t… · tree and pragmatics
description: But if water be put upon the seed, and aught of their carcass fall thereon, it is unclean unto you. Who acts: aught. Leviticus 11:38 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Leviticus 11:38 · JPS 1917

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But if water be put upon the seed, and aught of their carcass fall thereon, it is unclean unto you.

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**Who acts:** aught · **What happens:** put, fall, be · **To what, where:** water, seed

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This is Leviticus 11:38 · 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 (aught), 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:292
# text = But if water be put upon the seed, and aught of their carcass fall thereon, it is unclean unto you.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	advcl	_	_
6	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	aught	aught	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	carcass	carcass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	fall	fall	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
16	thereon	thereon	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	unclean	unclean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
21	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** *a condition, not said to happen* | infinitive · passive |  | water |  | the seed |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme upon seed=Destination |
| 2 | **fall** | present | aught of waters's carcass |  |  |  |  | thereon *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | aught |  |  |  |  | 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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וְכִ֤י יֻתַּן־מַ֙יִם֙ עַל־זֶ֔רַע וְנָפַ֥ל מִנִּבְלָתָ֖ם עָלָ֑יו טָמֵ֥א ה֖וּא לָכֶֽם׃ס

[Leviticus 11:38: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.11.38/)

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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:292` 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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