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title: Leviticus 15:8 (JPS 1917) — And if he that hath the issue spit upon him that is clean, then he s… · tree and pragmatics
description: And if he that hath the issue spit upon him that is clean, then he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even. Who acts: flesh. Leviticus 15:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Leviticus 15:8 · JPS 1917

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And if he that hath the issue spit upon him that is clean, then he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.

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**Who acts:** flesh · **What happens:** have, spit, be, wash, bathe · **To what, where:** issue, clothes, flesh

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This is Leviticus 15:8 · 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 (flesh), 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:434
# text = And if he that hath the issue spit upon him that is clean, then he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
5	hath	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	issue	issue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	spit	spit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
9	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	wash	wash	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	18	obj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	bathe	bathe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
24	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	23	obj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	cop	_	_
30	unclean	unclean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
31	until	until	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	even	even	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	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 | **have** | present |  | the issue |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent issue=Patient |
| 2 | **spit** | infinitive | flesh *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upon flesh | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | clean *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **wash** | shall | flesh | flesh's clothes |  |  | then |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient |
| 5 | **bathe** | infinitive | flesh *not said here* | flesh |  |  |  | in water | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Destination in water=Theme |
| 6 | **is** | infinitive | flesh *not said here* |  |  |  | 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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וְכִֽי־יָרֹ֛ק הַזָּ֖ב בַּטָּה֑וֹר וְכִבֶּ֧ס בְּגָדָ֛יו וְרָחַ֥ץ בַּמַּ֖יִם וְטָמֵ֥א עַד־הָעָֽרֶב׃

[Leviticus 15:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.15.8/)

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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:434` 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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