--- title: Leviticus 14:35 (JPS 1917) — then he that owneth the house shall come and tell the priest, saying… · tree and pragmatics description: then he that owneth the house shall come and tell the priest, saying: 'There seemeth to me to be as it were a plague in the house.' Who acts: plague, house. 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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, house), 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:404 # text = then he that owneth the house shall come and tell the priest, saying: 'There seemeth to me to be as it were a plague in the house.' 1 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 8 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 3 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 4 nsubj _ _ 4 owneth own VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 priest priest NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 15 : : PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 16 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 17 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 18 expl _ _ 18 seemeth seem VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 ccomp _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 obl _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 be be VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ _ 23 as as SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 25 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 plague plague NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 advcl _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ 32 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **own** | present | | the house | | | | | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot house=Theme | | 2 | **come** | shall | plague | | | | then | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | plague *not said here* | the priest | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent priest=Recipient | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | plague *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **seem** | present | | | me | there | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 6 | **be** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **is a** | past | house | a plague | | the house | | | tree rules | 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} וּבָא֙ אֲשֶׁר־ל֣וֹ הַבַּ֔יִת וְהִגִּ֥יד לַכֹּהֵ֖ן לֵאמֹ֑ר כְּנֶ֕גַע נִרְאָ֥ה לִ֖י בַּבָּֽיִת׃ [Leviticus 14:35: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.14.35/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:LEV:404` 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 14:34 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.403/) - next →: [Leviticus 14:36 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.405/) - ↑ back to [Leviticus 14:35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.14.35/)