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title: Leviticus 13:23 (JPS 1917) — But if the bright spot stay in its place, and be not spread, it is t… · tree and pragmatics
description: But if the bright spot stay in its place, and be not spread, it is the scar of the boil; and the priest shall pronounce him clean. Who acts: bright spot, boil, priest. Leviticus 13:23 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Leviticus 13:23 · JPS 1917

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But if the bright spot stay in its place, and be not spread, it is the scar of the boil; and the priest shall pronounce him clean.

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**Who acts:** bright spot, boil, priest · **What happens:** stay, not spread, be, pronounce · **To what, where:** place, scar, hair

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This is Leviticus 13:23 · 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 (bright spot, boil, 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:333
# text = But if the bright spot stay in its place, and be not spread, it is the scar of the boil; and the priest shall pronounce him clean.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	stay	stay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux:pass	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	spread	spread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	scar	scar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	boil	boil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
27	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	pronounce	pronounce	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	xcomp	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	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 | **stay** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | the bright spot |  |  | boil's place |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location |
| 2 | **not** **spread** | infinitive · passive | the bright spot *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V» |
| 3 | **is a** | present | boil | the scar |  |  |  | of the boil | tree rules |
| 4 | **pronounce** | shall | the priest | hair |  |  |  | clean *property* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Result |

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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־תַּחְתֶּ֜יהָ תַּעֲמֹ֤ד הַבַּהֶ֙רֶת֙ לֹ֣א פָשָׂ֔תָה צָרֶ֥בֶת הַשְּׁחִ֖ין הִ֑וא וְטִהֲר֖וֹ הַכֹּהֵֽן׃ס

[Leviticus 13:23: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.13.23/)

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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:333` 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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