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title: Leviticus 12:7 (JPS 1917) — This is the law for her that beareth, whether a male or a female. · tree and pragmatics
description: This is the law for her that beareth, whether a male or a female. Who acts: This. Leviticus 12:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Leviticus 12:7 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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This is the law for her that beareth, whether a male or a female.

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**Who acts:** This · **What happens:** be, bear · **To what, where:** law

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This is Leviticus 12:7 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 (This), 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:309
# text = This is the law for her that beareth, whether a male or a female.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nmod	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
8	beareth	bear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	whether	whether	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc:preconj	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	male	male	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	female	female	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: none
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | This | the law |  |  |  | for flesh; a male or a female *nmod* | tree rules |
| 2 | **bear** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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וְהִקְרִיב֞וֹ לִפְנֵ֤י יְהוָה֙ וְכִפֶּ֣ר עָלֶ֔יהָ וְטָהֲרָ֖ה מִמְּקֹ֣ר דָּמֶ֑יהָ זֹ֤את תּוֹרַת֙ הַיֹּלֶ֔דֶת לַזָּכָ֖ר א֥וֹ לַנְּקֵבָֽה׃

[Leviticus 12:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.12.7/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [And he shall offer it before the LORD, and make atonement for her; and she shall be cleansed from the fountain of her blood.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.308/)
2. **This is the law for her that beareth, whether a male or a female.**

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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:309` 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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