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title: Leviticus 15:20 (JPS 1917) — And every thing that she lieth upon in her impurity shall be unclean… · tree and pragmatics
description: And every thing that she lieth upon in her impurity shall be unclean; every thing also that she sitteth upon shall be unclean. Who acts: woman, thing. Leviticus 15:20 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Leviticus 15:20 · JPS 1917

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And every thing that she lieth upon in her impurity shall be unclean; every thing also that she sitteth upon shall be unclean.

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**Who acts:** woman, thing · **What happens:** lie, be, sit · **To what, where:** impurity, thing

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This is Leviticus 15:20 · 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, thing), 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:446
# text = And every thing that she lieth upon in her impurity shall be unclean; every thing also that she sitteth upon shall be unclean.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
2	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	obl	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	lieth	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	impurity	impurity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
13	unclean	unclean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
15	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
17	also	also	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	obl	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	sitteth	sit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
21	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
22	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	cop	_	_
24	unclean	unclean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	parataxis	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **lie** | present | woman |  |  | woman's impurity |  | upon every thing | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon that=Location |
| 2 | **is** | shall | every thing |  |  |  |  | unclean *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **sit** | present | woman |  |  | every thing |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon that=Location |
| 4 | **is** | shall | every thing |  |  |  |  | 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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וְכֹל֩ אֲשֶׁ֨ר תִּשְׁכַּ֥ב עָלָ֛יו בְּנִדָּתָ֖הּ יִטְמָ֑א וְכֹ֛ל אֲשֶׁר־תֵּשֵׁ֥ב עָלָ֖יו יִטְמָֽא׃

[Leviticus 15:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.15.20/)

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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:446` 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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