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title: Leviticus 15:19 (JPS 1917) — And if a woman have an issue, and her issue in her flesh be blood, s… · tree and pragmatics
description: And if a woman have an issue, and her issue in her flesh be blood, she shall be in her impurity seven days; and whosoever toucheth her shall be unclean until the even. Who acts: woman, issue, whosoever. Leviticus 15:19 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Leviticus 15:19 · JPS 1917

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And if a woman have an issue, and her issue in her flesh be blood, she shall be in her impurity seven days; and whosoever toucheth her shall be unclean until the even.

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**Who acts:** woman, issue, whosoever · **What happens:** have, be, touch, issue · **To what, where:** issue, blood, impurity, woman, flesh

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This is Leviticus 15:19 · 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 (woman, issue, 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:445
# text = And if a woman have an issue, and her issue in her flesh be blood, she shall be in her impurity seven days; and whosoever toucheth her shall be unclean until the even.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Sub|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	issue	issue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	issue	issue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	flesh	flesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	Mood=Sub|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	advcl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
19	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	cop	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	impurity	impurity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
24	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl:unmarked	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
28	whosoever	whosoever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
29	toucheth	touch	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	csubj	_	_
30	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	cop	_	_
33	unclean	unclean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	_
34	until	until	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	even	even	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	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 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a woman | a issue |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent issue=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | infinitive | woman's issue in woman's flesh | blood |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | shall | woman |  |  | woman's impurity | day |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **touch** | present | whosoever | woman |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme she=Co-Theme |
| 5 | **is** | shall | woman *not said here* |  |  |  | until the even | unclean *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **issue** |  | woman |  |  | woman's flesh |  |  | nom issue «cognition transitive»: poss=agent in=place |

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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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וְאִשָּׁה֙ כִּֽי־תִהְיֶ֣ה זָבָ֔ה דָּ֛ם יִהְיֶ֥ה זֹבָ֖הּ בִּבְשָׂרָ֑הּ שִׁבְעַ֤ת יָמִים֙ תִּהְיֶ֣ה בְנִדָּתָ֔הּ וְכָל־הַנֹּגֵ֥עַ בָּ֖הּ יִטְמָ֥א עַד־הָעָֽרֶב׃

[Leviticus 15:19: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.15.19/)

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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:445` 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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