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title: Leviticus 13:15 (JPS 1917) — And the priest shall look on the raw flesh, and pronounce him unclea… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the priest shall look on the raw flesh, and pronounce him unclean; the raw flesh is unclean: it is leprosy. Who acts: priest, raw flesh, flesh. Leviticus 13:15 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Leviticus 13:15 · JPS 1917

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And the priest shall look on the raw flesh, and pronounce him unclean; the raw flesh is unclean: it is leprosy.

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**Who acts:** priest, raw flesh, flesh · **What happens:** look, pronounce, be · **To what, where:** priest, leprosy

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This is Leviticus 13:15 · 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, raw flesh, 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:325
# text = And the priest shall look on the raw flesh, and pronounce him unclean; the raw flesh is 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	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	raw	raw	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	flesh	flesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	pronounce	pronounce	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	unclean	unclean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	raw	raw	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	flesh	flesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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	5	parataxis	_	_
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	leprosy	leprosy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **look** | shall | the priest |  |  |  |  | on the raw flesh | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on flesh=Theme |
| 2 | **pronounce** | infinitive | the priest *not said here* | priest |  |  |  | unclean *property* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Result |
| 3 | **is** | present | the raw flesh |  |  |  |  | unclean *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present | flesh | leprosy |  |  |  |  | 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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וְרָאָ֧ה הַכֹּהֵ֛ן אֶת־הַבָּשָׂ֥ר הַחַ֖י וְטִמְּא֑וֹ הַבָּשָׂ֥ר הַחַ֛י טָמֵ֥א ה֖וּא צָרַ֥עַת הֽוּא׃

[Leviticus 13:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.13.15/)

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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:325` 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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