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title: Leviticus 13:38 (JPS 1917) — And if a man or a woman have in the skin of their flesh bright spots… · tree and pragmatics
description: And if a man or a woman have in the skin of their flesh bright spots, even white bright spots; Who acts: man. Leviticus 13:38 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Leviticus 13:38 · JPS 1917

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And if a man or a woman have in the skin of their flesh bright spots, even white bright spots;

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** bright spots, skin

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This is Leviticus 13:38 · 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 (man), 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:348
# text = And if a man or a woman have in the skin of their flesh bright spots, even white bright spots;
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Sub|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	flesh	flesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	spots	spot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	even	even	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
19	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	spots	spot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	appos	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	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 | **have** | present | a man or a woman | bright spots |  | the skin of rising's flesh |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Patient |

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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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וְאִישׁ֙ אֽוֹ־אִשָּׁ֔ה כִּֽי־יִהְיֶ֥ה בְעוֹר־בְּשָׂרָ֖ם בֶּהָרֹ֑ת בֶּהָרֹ֖ת לְבָנֹֽת׃

[Leviticus 13:38: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.13.38/)

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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:348` 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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