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title: Leviticus 13:42 (JPS 1917) — But if there be in the bald head, or the bald forehead, a reddish-wh… · tree and pragmatics
description: But if there be in the bald head, or the bald forehead, a reddish-white plague, it is leprosy breaking out in his bald head, or his bald forehead. Who acts: plague, leprosy. Leviticus 13:42 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Leviticus 13:42 · JPS 1917

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But if there be in the bald head, or the bald forehead, a reddish-white plague, it is leprosy breaking out in his bald head, or his bald forehead.

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**Who acts:** plague, leprosy · **What happens:** be, break out · **To what, where:** bald head, leprosy

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This is Leviticus 13:42 · 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 (plague, leprosy), 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:352
# text = But if there be in the bald head, or the bald forehead, a reddish-white plague, it is leprosy breaking out in his bald head, or his bald forehead.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
4	be	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	bald	bald	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	bald	bald	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	forehead	forehead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
16	reddish	reddish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	_
18	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	plague	plague	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	leprosy	leprosy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
24	breaking	break	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	acl	_	_
25	out	out	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	bald	bald	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
33	bald	bald	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	forehead	forehead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	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 | **be** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | plague *not said here* |  |  | the bald head or the bald forehead; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in head=Location |
| 2 | **is a** | present | plague | leprosy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **break out** | gerund | leprosy *not said here* |  |  | hair's bald head or hair's bald forehead |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in head=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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וְכִֽי־יִהְיֶ֤ה בַקָּרַ֙חַת֙ א֣וֹ בַגַּבַּ֔חַת נֶ֖גַע לָבָ֣ן אֲדַמְדָּ֑ם צָרַ֤עַת פֹּרַ֙חַת֙ הִ֔וא בְּקָרַחְתּ֖וֹ א֥וֹ בְגַבַּחְתּֽוֹ׃

[Leviticus 13:42: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.13.42/)

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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:352` 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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