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title: Leviticus 15:17 (JPS 1917) — And every garment, and every skin, whereon is the flow of seed, shal… · tree and pragmatics
description: And every garment, and every skin, whereon is the flow of seed, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the even. Leviticus 15:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Leviticus 15:17 · JPS 1917

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And every garment, and every skin, whereon is the flow of seed, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the even.

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**What happens:** be, wash · **To what, where:** flow, garment

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This is Leviticus 15:17 · 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: 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:443
# text = And every garment, and every skin, whereon is the flow of seed, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the even.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
2	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	garment	garment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	whereon	whereon	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	12	advmod	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	flow	flow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	acl:relcl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
16	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	washed	wash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	cop	_	_
24	unclean	unclean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
25	until	until	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	even	even	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **is a** | present |  | the flow |  |  |  | of seed; whereon *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **wash** | shall · passive |  | every garment and every skin |  |  |  | with water | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with water=Instrument |
| 3 | **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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וְכָל־בֶּ֣גֶד וְכָל־ע֔וֹר אֲשֶׁר־יִהְיֶ֥ה עָלָ֖יו שִׁכְבַת־זָ֑רַע וְכֻבַּ֥ס בַּמַּ֖יִם וְטָמֵ֥א עַד־הָעָֽרֶב׃פ

[Leviticus 15:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.15.17/)

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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:443` 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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