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title: Leviticus 14:40 (JPS 1917) — then the priest shall command that they take out the stones in which… · tree and pragmatics
description: then the priest shall command that they take out the stones in which the plague is, and cast them into an unclean place without the city. Who acts: priest, walls. Leviticus 14:40 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Leviticus 14:40 · JPS 1917

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then the priest shall command that they take out the stones in which the plague is, and cast them into an unclean place without the city.

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**Who acts:** priest, walls · **What happens:** command, take out, cast · **To what, where:** stones, walls, unclean place · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Leviticus 14:40 · 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, walls), 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:409
# text = then the priest shall command that they take out the stones in which the plague is, and cast them into an unclean place without the city.
1	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
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	command	command	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	obl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	plague	plague	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	cast	cast	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	unclean	unclean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	without	without	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	.	.	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 | **command** | shall | the priest |  |  |  | then |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **take out** | present | walls *= wall* | the stones |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme |
| 3 | **cast** | infinitive | walls *= wall* *not said here* | walls *= wall* |  | a unclean place without the city |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent they=Material into place=Product |

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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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וְצִוָּה֙ הַכֹּהֵ֔ן וְחִלְּצוּ֙ אֶת־הָ֣אֲבָנִ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר בָּהֵ֖ן הַנָּ֑גַע וְהִשְׁלִ֤יכוּ אֶתְהֶן֙ אֶל־מִח֣וּץ לָעִ֔יר אֶל־מָק֖וֹם טָמֵֽא׃

[Leviticus 14:40: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.14.40/)

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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:409` 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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