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title: Leviticus 14:39 (JPS 1917) — And the priest shall come again the seventh day, and shall look; and… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the priest shall come again the seventh day, and shall look; and, behold, if the plague be spread in the walls of the house; Who acts: priest. Leviticus 14:39 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Leviticus 14:39 · JPS 1917

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And the priest shall come again the seventh day, and shall look; and, behold, if the plague be spread in the walls of the house;

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**Who acts:** priest · **What happens:** come, look, spread · **To what, where:** plague, walls

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This is Leviticus 14:39 · 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), 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:408
# text = And the priest shall come again the seventh day, and shall look; and, behold, if the plague be spread in the walls of the house;
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	again	again	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	seventh	seventh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	plague	plague	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	Mood=Sub|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	spread	spread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	5	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 | **come** | shall | the priest |  |  |  | again; day |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **look** | shall | the priest *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **spread** *a condition, not said to happen* | infinitive · passive |  | the plague |  | the walls of the house |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in wall=Destination |

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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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וְשָׁ֥ב הַכֹּהֵ֖ן בַּיּ֣וֹם הַשְּׁבִיעִ֑י וְרָאָ֕ה וְהִנֵּ֛ה פָּשָׂ֥ה הַנֶּ֖גַע בְּקִירֹ֥ת הַבָּֽיִת׃

[Leviticus 14:39: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.14.39/)

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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:408` 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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