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title: Leviticus 15:12 (JPS 1917) — And the earthen vessel, which he that hath the issue toucheth, shall… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the earthen vessel, which he that hath the issue toucheth, shall be broken; and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water. Who acts: flesh. Leviticus 15:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Leviticus 15:12 · JPS 1917

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And the earthen vessel, which he that hath the issue toucheth, shall be broken; and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water.

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**Who acts:** flesh · **What happens:** have, touch, break, rinse · **To what, where:** issue, earthen vessel, vessel, water

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This is Leviticus 15:12 · 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:438
# text = And the earthen vessel, which he that hath the issue toucheth, shall be broken; and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	earthen	earthen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	obj	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
9	hath	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	issue	issue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	toucheth	touch	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
19	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
20	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	rinsed	rinse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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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 | **touch** | present | flesh | the earthen vessel |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme which=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **break** | shall · passive |  | the earthen vessel |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **rinse** | shall · passive |  | every vessel of wood |  | water |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source |

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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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וּכְלִי־חֶ֛רֶשׂ אֲשֶׁר־יִגַּע־בּ֥וֹ הַזָּ֖ב יִשָּׁבֵ֑ר וְכָל־כְּלִי־עֵ֔ץ יִשָּׁטֵ֖ף בַּמָּֽיִם׃

[Leviticus 15:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.15.12/)

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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:438` 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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