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title: Leviticus 12:5 (JPS 1917) — But if she bear a maid-child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, a… · tree and pragmatics
description: But if she bear a maid-child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her impurity; and she shall continue in the blood of purification threescore and six days. Who acts: flesh. Leviticus 12:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Leviticus 12:5 · JPS 1917

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But if she bear a maid-child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her impurity; and she shall continue in the blood of purification threescore and six days.

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**Who acts:** flesh · **What happens:** bear, be, continue · **To what, where:** maid child, blood

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This is Leviticus 12:5 · 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 (flesh), 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:306
# text = But if she bear a maid-child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her impurity; and she shall continue in the blood of purification threescore and six days.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	bear	bear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	_
8	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
10	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
14	unclean	unclean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
15	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	impurity	impurity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	continue	continue	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	purification	purification	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	threescore	threescore	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	35	nummod	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	conj	_	_
35	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl:unmarked	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | flesh | a maid child |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | shall | flesh |  |  |  | then; week | as flesh's impurity; unclean *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **continue** | shall | flesh |  |  | the blood of purification | day |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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וְאִם־נְקֵבָ֣ה תֵלֵ֔ד וְטָמְאָ֥ה שְׁבֻעַ֖יִם כְּנִדָּתָ֑הּ וְשִׁשִּׁ֥ים יוֹם֙ וְשֵׁ֣שֶׁת יָמִ֔ים תֵּשֵׁ֖ב עַל־דְּמֵ֥י טָהֳרָֽה׃

[Leviticus 12:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.12.5/)

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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:306` 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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