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title: Leviticus 15:27 (JPS 1917) — And whosoever toucheth those things shall be unclean, and shall wash… · tree and pragmatics
description: And whosoever toucheth those things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even. Who acts: whosoever. Leviticus 15:27 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Leviticus 15:27 · JPS 1917

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And whosoever toucheth those things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.

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**Who acts:** whosoever · **What happens:** touch, be, wash, bathe · **To what, where:** things, clothes, man

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This is Leviticus 15:27 · 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 (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:453
# text = And whosoever toucheth those things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	whosoever	whosoever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
3	toucheth	touch	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
4	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
8	unclean	unclean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	wash	wash	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	12	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	bathe	bathe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
18	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	17	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	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	8	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	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **touch** | present |  | that things |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme thing=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **is** | shall | whosoever |  |  |  |  | unclean *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **wash** | shall | whosoever *not said here* | man's clothes |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient |
| 4 | **bathe** | infinitive | whosoever *not said here* | man |  |  |  | in water | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Destination in water=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | infinitive | whosoever *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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וְכָל־הַנּוֹגֵ֥עַ בָּ֖ם יִטְמָ֑א וְכִבֶּ֧ס בְּגָדָ֛יו וְרָחַ֥ץ בַּמַּ֖יִם וְטָמֵ֥א עַד־הָעָֽרֶב׃

[Leviticus 15:27: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.15.27/)

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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:453` 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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