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title: Leviticus 12:8 (JPS 1917) — And if her means suffice not for a lamb, then she shall take two tur… · tree and pragmatics
description: And if her means suffice not for a lamb, then she shall take two turtle-doves, or two young pigeons: the one for a burnt-offering, and the other for a sin-offering; and the priest shall make atonement for her, and she shall be clean. Who acts: suffice, flesh, priest. Leviticus 12:8 in JPS 1917 with 
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# Leviticus 12:8 · JPS 1917

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And if her means suffice not for a lamb, then she shall take two turtle-doves, or two young pigeons: the one for a burnt-offering, and the other for a sin-offering; and the priest shall make atonement for her, and she shall be clean.

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**Who acts:** suffice, flesh, priest · **What happens:** not suffice, take, burn, make, be · **To what, where:** two turtle doves, atonement

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This is Leviticus 12:8 · 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 (suffice, flesh, priest), 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:310
# text = And if her means suffice not for a lamb, then she shall take two turtle-doves, or two young pigeons: the one for a burnt-offering, and the other for a sin-offering; and the priest shall make atonement for her, and she shall be clean.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	means	suffice	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
5	suffice	means	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	lamb	lamb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
15	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
16	turtle	turtle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	_
18	doves	dove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
22	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	pigeons	pigeon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
24	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	burnt	burn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	amod	_	_
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	_
31	offering	offering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	conj	_	_
36	for	for	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
38	sin	sin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
39	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	38	punct	_	_
40	offering	offering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
41	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	46	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nsubj	_	_
45	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
46	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
47	atonement	atonement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obj	_	_
48	for	for	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	obl	_	_
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
52	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj	_	_
53	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	55	aux	_	_
54	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	55	cop	_	_
55	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	conj	_	_
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **suffice** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | flesh's suffice |  |  |  |  | for a lamb | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | shall | flesh | two turtle doves or two young pigeons |  |  | then |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dove=Theme |
| 3 | **burn** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | shall | the priest | atonement |  |  |  | for flesh | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent atonement=Product for she=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **is** | shall | flesh |  |  |  |  | clean *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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וְאִם־לֹ֨א תִמְצָ֣א יָדָהּ֮ דֵּ֣י שֶׂה֒ וְלָקְחָ֣ה שְׁתֵּֽי־תֹרִ֗ים א֤וֹ שְׁנֵי֙ בְּנֵ֣י יוֹנָ֔ה אֶחָ֥ד לְעֹלָ֖ה וְאֶחָ֣ד לְחַטָּ֑את וְכִפֶּ֥ר עָלֶ֛יהָ הַכֹּהֵ֖ן וְטָהֵֽרָה׃פ

[Leviticus 12:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.12.8/)

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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:310` 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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