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title: Leviticus 13:59 (JPS 1917) — This is the law of the plague of leprosy in a garment of wool or lin… · tree and pragmatics
description: This is the law of the plague of leprosy in a garment of wool or linen, or in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing of skin, to pronounce it clean, or to pronounce it unclean. Who acts: This. Leviticus 13:59 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Leviticus 13:59 · JPS 1917

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This is the law of the plague of leprosy in a garment of wool or linen, or in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing of skin, to pronounce it clean, or to pronounce it unclean.

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**Who acts:** This · **What happens:** be, pronounce, plague · **To what, where:** law, plague, leprosy, garment

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This is Leviticus 13:59 · 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 (This), 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:369
# text = This is the law of the plague of leprosy in a garment of wool or linen, or in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing of skin, to pronounce it clean, or to pronounce it unclean.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	plague	plague	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	leprosy	leprosy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	garment	garment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	wool	wool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	linen	linen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	warp	warp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	woof	woof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	31	det	_	_
31	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	pronounce	pronounce	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
37	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	_
38	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	xcomp	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
40	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
41	to	to	PART	TO	_	42	mark	_	_
42	pronounce	pronounce	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	conj	_	_
43	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	obj	_	_
44	unclean	unclean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	xcomp	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **is a** | present | This | the law |  |  |  | of the plague of leprosy in a garment of wool or linen or the warp or the woof or any thing of skin | tree rules |
| 2 | **pronounce** | to-infinitive | This *not said here* | plague |  |  |  | clean *property* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **pronounce** | to-infinitive | This *not said here* | plague |  |  |  | unclean *property* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **plague** |  |  | leprosy |  | a garment of wool or linen or the warp or the woof or any thing of skin |  |  | nom plague «state transitive»: of=patient in=place |

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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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זֹ֠את תּוֹרַ֨ת נֶֽגַע־צָרַ֜עַת בֶּ֥גֶד הַצֶּ֣מֶר ׀ א֣וֹ הַפִּשְׁתִּ֗ים א֤וֹ הַשְּׁתִי֙ א֣וֹ הָעֵ֔רֶב א֖וֹ כָּל־כְּלִי־ע֑וֹר לְטַהֲר֖וֹ א֥וֹ לְטַמְּאֽוֹ׃פ

[Leviticus 13:59: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.13.59/)

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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:369` 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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