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title: Leviticus 13:20 (JPS 1917) — And the priest shall look; and, behold, if the appearance thereof be… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the priest shall look; and, behold, if the appearance thereof be lower than the skin, and the hair thereof be turned white, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is the plague of leprosy, it hath broken out in the boil. Who acts: priest, appearance. Leviticus 13:20 in JPS 1917 with its
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# Leviticus 13:20 · JPS 1917

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And the priest shall look; and, behold, if the appearance thereof be lower than the skin, and the hair thereof be turned white, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is the plague of leprosy, it hath broken out in the boil.

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**Who acts:** priest, appearance · **What happens:** look, be, turn, pronounce, break out · **To what, where:** hair, plague, boil

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This is Leviticus 13:20 · 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, appearance), 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:330
# text = And the priest shall look; and, behold, if the appearance thereof be lower than the skin, and the hair thereof be turned white, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is the plague of leprosy, it hath broken out in the boil.
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	:	_	33	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	33	discourse	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	appearance	appearance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	cop	_	_
16	lower	low	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	33	advcl	_	_
17	than	than	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
27	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	xcomp	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	33	advmod	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
32	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	pronounce	pronounce	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
34	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	unclean	unclean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	xcomp	_	_
36	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	40	punct	_	_
37	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
38	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	cop	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	plague	plague	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	leprosy	leprosy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
44	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
45	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
46	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	40	parataxis	_	_
47	out	out	ADP	RP	_	46	compound:prt	_	_
48	in	in	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	boil	boil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	_
51	.	.	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 |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | infinitive | the appearance |  |  |  |  | than the skin; low *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **turn** | infinitive · passive |  | the hair |  |  |  | white *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **pronounce** | shall | the priest | hair |  |  | then | unclean *property* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Result |
| 5 | **is a** | present | appearance | the plague |  |  |  | of leprosy | tree rules |
| 6 | **break out** | present · perfect | appearance |  |  | the boil |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in boil=Location |

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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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וְרָאָ֣ה הַכֹּהֵ֗ן וְהִנֵּ֤ה מַרְאֶ֙הָ֙ שָׁפָ֣ל מִן־הָע֔וֹר וּשְׂעָרָ֖הּ הָפַ֣ךְ לָבָ֑ן וְטִמְּא֧וֹ הַכֹּהֵ֛ן נֶֽגַע־צָרַ֥עַת הִ֖וא בַּשְּׁחִ֥ין פָּרָֽחָה׃

[Leviticus 13:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.13.20/)

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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:330` 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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