---
title: Leviticus 14:53 (JPS 1917) — But he shall let go the living bird out of the city into the open fi… · tree and pragmatics
description: But he shall let go the living bird out of the city into the open field; so shall he make atonement for the house; and it shall be clean. Who acts: plague, house. Leviticus 14:53 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.422/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Torah](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/) / [Leviticus](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV/) / [chapter 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV/14/) / [14:53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.14.53/) / JPS 1

# Leviticus 14:53 · JPS 1917

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
But he shall let go the living bird out of the city into the open field; so shall he make atonement for the house; and it shall be clean.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** plague, house · **What happens:** let, go, make, be · **To what, where:** living bird, city, atonement

<!-- .vabout -->
This is Leviticus 14:53 · 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 (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:422
# text = But he shall let go the living bird out of the city into the open field; so shall he make atonement for the house; and it shall be clean.
1	But	but	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	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	living	live	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
19	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
22	atonement	atonement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
29	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	cop	_	_
31	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- sa -->
- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | shall | plague |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | infinitive | plague *not said here* | the living bird |  | the city |  | into the open field | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | shall | plague | atonement |  |  |  | for the house | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent atonement=Product for house=Asset |
| 4 | **is** | shall | house |  |  |  |  | clean *property* | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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}

<!-- .vhe dir=rtl lang=hbo -->
וְשִׁלַּ֞ח אֶת־הַצִּפֹּ֧ר הַֽחַיָּ֛ה אֶל־מִח֥וּץ לָעִ֖יר אֶל־פְּנֵ֣י הַשָּׂדֶ֑ה וְכִפֶּ֥ר עַל־הַבַּ֖יִת וְטָהֵֽר׃

[Leviticus 14:53: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.14.53/)

<!-- div src -->

**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:LEV:422` 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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Leviticus 14:52 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.421/)
- next →: [Leviticus 14:54 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.423/)
- ↑ back to [Leviticus 14:53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.14.53/)