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title: Leviticus 14:37 (JPS 1917) — And he shall look on the plague, and, behold, if the plague be in th… · tree and pragmatics
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# Leviticus 14:37 · JPS 1917

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And he shall look on the plague, and, behold, if the plague be in the walls of the house with hollow streaks, greenish or reddish, and the appearance thereof be lower than the wall;

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**Who acts:** priest, plague, appearance · **What happens:** look, be · **To what, where:** walls

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This is Leviticus 14:37 · 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 (priest, plague, appearance), 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:406
# text = And he shall look on the plague, and, behold, if the plague be in the walls of the house with hollow streaks, greenish or reddish, and the appearance thereof be lower than the wall;
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	plague	plague	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	19	discourse	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	plague	plague	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	cop	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	advcl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	hollow	hollow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	streaks	streak	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	greenish	greenish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
28	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	reddish	reddish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	conj	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	appearance	appearance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
34	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
35	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	cop	_	_
36	lower	low	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	conj	_	_
37	than	than	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
40	;	;	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 | **look** | shall | priest |  |  |  |  | on the plague | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on plague=Theme |
| 2 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | infinitive | the plague |  |  | the walls |  | of the house; with hollow streaks | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | infinitive | the appearance |  |  |  |  | than the wall; low *property* | tree rules |

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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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וְרָאָ֣ה אֶת־הַנֶּ֗גַע וְהִנֵּ֤ה הַנֶּ֙גַע֙ בְּקִירֹ֣ת הַבַּ֔יִת שְׁקַֽעֲרוּרֹת֙ יְרַקְרַקֹּ֔ת א֖וֹ אֲדַמְדַּמֹּ֑ת וּמַרְאֵיהֶ֥ן שָׁפָ֖ל מִן־הַקִּֽיר׃

[Leviticus 14:37: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.14.37/)

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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:406` 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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