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title: Leviticus 15:5 (JPS 1917) — And whosoever toucheth his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe him… · tree and pragmatics
description: And whosoever toucheth his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even. Who acts: whosoever. Leviticus 15:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Leviticus 15:5 · JPS 1917

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And whosoever toucheth his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.

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**Who acts:** whosoever · **What happens:** touch, wash, bathe, be · **To what, where:** bed, clothes, flesh

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This is Leviticus 15:5 · 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 (whosoever), 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:431
# text = And whosoever toucheth his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	whosoever	whosoever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	toucheth	touch	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	wash	wash	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	7	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	bathe	bathe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
13	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	12	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	cop	_	_
19	unclean	unclean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
20	until	until	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	even	even	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=decl

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **touch** | present | whosoever | flesh's bed |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bed=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **wash** | shall |  | flesh's clothes |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient |
| 3 | **bathe** | infinitive |  | flesh |  |  |  | in water | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Destination in water=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | infinitive |  |  |  |  | until the even | unclean *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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וְאִ֕ישׁ אֲשֶׁ֥ר יִגַּ֖ע בְּמִשְׁכָּב֑וֹ יְכַבֵּ֧ס בְּגָדָ֛יו וְרָחַ֥ץ בַּמַּ֖יִם וְטָמֵ֥א עַד־הָעָֽרֶב׃

[Leviticus 15:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.15.5/)

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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:431` 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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