--- title: Leviticus 13:8 (JPS 1917) — And the priest shall look, and, behold, if the scab be spread in the… · tree and pragmatics description: And the priest shall look, and, behold, if the scab be spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is leprosy. Who acts: priest, skin. Leviticus 13:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.318/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Torah](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/) / [Leviticus](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV/) / [chapter 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV/13/) / [13:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.13.8/) / JPS 1 # Leviticus 13:8 · JPS 1917 And the priest shall look, and, behold, if the scab be spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is leprosy. **Who acts:** priest, skin · **What happens:** look, spread, pronounce, be · **To what, where:** scab, skin, leprosy This is Leviticus 13:8 · 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 (priest, skin), 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:318 # text = And the priest shall look, and, behold, if the scab be spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is leprosy. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 priest priest NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 behold behold INTJ UH _ 24 discourse _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 if if SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 scab scab NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj:pass _ _ 14 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 15 aux:pass _ _ 15 spread spread VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 advcl _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 20 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 24 advmod _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 priest priest NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 23 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 pronounce pronounce VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 25 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 unclean unclean ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 xcomp _ _ 27 : : PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 30 leprosy leprosy NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 parataxis _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | shall | the priest | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **spread** *a condition, not said to happen* | infinitive · passive | | the scab | | the skin | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in skin=Destination | | 3 | **pronounce** | shall | the priest | scab | | | then | unclean *property* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Result | | 4 | **is a** | present | skin | leprosy | | | | | tree rules | 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} וְרָאָה֙ הַכֹּהֵ֔ן וְהִנֵּ֛ה פָּשְׂתָ֥ה הַמִּסְפַּ֖חַת בָּע֑וֹר וְטִמְּא֥וֹ הַכֹּהֵ֖ן צָרַ֥עַת הִֽוא׃פ [Leviticus 13:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.13.8/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:LEV:318` 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. - ← previous: [Leviticus 13:7 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.317/) - next →: [Leviticus 13:9 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.319/) - ↑ back to [Leviticus 13:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.13.8/)