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title: Leviticus 15:18 (JPS 1917) — The woman also with whom a man shall lie carnally, they shall both b… · tree and pragmatics
description: The woman also with whom a man shall lie carnally, they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the even. Who acts: man, garment. Leviticus 15:18 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Leviticus 15:18 · JPS 1917

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The woman also with whom a man shall lie carnally, they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the even.

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**Who acts:** man, garment · **What happens:** lie, bathe, be · **To what, where:** garment

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This is Leviticus 15:18 · 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 (man, garment), 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:444
# text = The woman also with whom a man shall lie carnally, they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the even.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	dislocated	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	obl	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	lie	lie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	dislocated	_	_
10	carnally	carnally	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	both	both	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	bathe	bathe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
16	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	15	obj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	cop	_	_
22	unclean	unclean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
23	until	until	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	even	even	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | shall | a man |  |  |  |  | carnally *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **bathe** | shall | garment | garment |  |  |  | in water; the woman *dislocated*; both *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent themselves=Destination in water=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | infinitive | garment *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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וְאִשָּׁ֕ה אֲשֶׁ֨ר יִשְׁכַּ֥ב אִ֛ישׁ אֹתָ֖הּ שִׁכְבַת־זָ֑רַע וְרָחֲצ֣וּ בַמַּ֔יִם וְטָמְא֖וּ עַד־הָעָֽרֶב׃

[Leviticus 15:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.15.18/)

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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:444` 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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