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title: Leviticus 14:32 (JPS 1917) — This is the law of him in whom is the plague of leprosy, whose means… · tree and pragmatics
description: This is the law of him in whom is the plague of leprosy, whose means suffice not for that which pertaineth to his cleansing. Who acts: This, means, priest. Leviticus 14:32 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Leviticus 14:32 · JPS 1917

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This is the law of him in whom is the plague of leprosy, whose means suffice not for that which pertaineth to his cleansing.

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**Who acts:** This, means, priest · **What happens:** be, not suffice, pertain, cleanse · **To what, where:** law, plague

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This is Leviticus 14:32 · 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, means, 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:401
# text = This is the law of him in whom is the plague of leprosy, whose means suffice not for that which pertaineth to his cleansing.
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	_	6	case	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nmod	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	plague	plague	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	acl:relcl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	leprosy	leprosy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	means	means	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	17	nsubj	_	_
17	suffice	suffice	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	obl	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	pertaineth	pertain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	cleansing	cleansing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 priest | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | the plague |  |  |  | of leprosy | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **suffice** | present | means |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **pertain** | present |  |  |  |  |  | to priest's cleansing | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to cleansing=Co-Theme |
| 5 | **cleanse** |  | priest |  |  |  |  |  | nom cleansing «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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זֹ֣את תּוֹרַ֔ת אֲשֶׁר־בּ֖וֹ נֶ֣גַע צָרָ֑עַת אֲשֶׁ֛ר לֹֽא־תַשִּׂ֥יג יָד֖וֹ בְּטָהֳרָתֽוֹ׃פ

[Leviticus 14:32: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.14.32/)

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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:401` 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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