--- title: Leviticus 14:2 (JPS 1917) — This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: he s… · tree and pragmatics description: This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: he shall be brought unto the priest. Who acts: This, Moses. Leviticus 14:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.371/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Torah](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/) / [Leviticus](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV/) / [chapter 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV/14/) / [14:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.14.2/) / JPS 1 # Leviticus 14:2 · JPS 1917 This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: he shall be brought unto the priest. **Who acts:** This, Moses · **What happens:** be, bring, cleanse · **To what, where:** law, Moses This is Leviticus 14:2 · 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, Moses), 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:371 # text = This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: he shall be brought unto the priest. 1 This this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 5 nsubj _ _ 2 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 3 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 5 cop _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 leper leper NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 cleansing cleansing NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 15 : : PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj:pass _ _ 17 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 19 aux:pass _ _ 19 brought bring VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 parataxis _ _ 20 unto unto ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 priest priest NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | shall | This | the law | | | day | of the leper | tree rules | | 2 | **bring** | shall · passive | | Moses | | | | unto the priest | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination | | 3 | **cleanse** | | Moses | | | | | | nom cleansing «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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} זֹ֤את תִּֽהְיֶה֙ תּוֹרַ֣ת הַמְּצֹרָ֔ע בְּי֖וֹם טָהֳרָת֑וֹ וְהוּבָ֖א אֶל־הַכֹּהֵֽן׃ [Leviticus 14:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.14.2/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:LEV:371` 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. - ← previous: [Leviticus 14:1 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.370/) - next →: [Leviticus 14:3 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.372/) - ↑ back to [Leviticus 14:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.14.2/)