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title: Leviticus 15:32 (JPS 1917) — This is the law of him that hath an issue, and of him from whom the… · tree and pragmatics
description: This is the law of him that hath an issue, and of him from whom the flow of seed goeth out, so that he is unclean thereby; Who acts: This, law, flow, seed. Leviticus 15:32 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Leviticus 15:32 · JPS 1917

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This is the law of him that hath an issue, and of him from whom the flow of seed goeth out, so that he is unclean thereby;

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**Who acts:** This, law, flow, seed · **What happens:** be, have, go out, flow · **To what, where:** law, issue

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This is Leviticus 15:32 · 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 (This, law, flow, seed), 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:458
# text = This is the law of him that hath an issue, and of him from whom the flow of seed goeth out, so that he is unclean thereby;
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nmod	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	hath	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	issue	issue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	conj	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	obl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	flow	flow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	goeth	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	28	mark	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	fixed	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	unclean	unclean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	advcl	_	_
29	thereby	thereby	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	4	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 | This | the law |  |  |  | of Israel | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present | the law | a issue |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent issue=Patient |
| 3 | **go out** | present | the flow of seed |  |  |  |  |  | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present | flow |  |  |  |  | thereby, unclean *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **flow** |  | seed |  |  |  |  |  | nom flow «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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זֹ֥את תּוֹרַ֖ת הַזָּ֑ב וַאֲשֶׁ֨ר תֵּצֵ֥א מִמֶּ֛נּוּ שִׁכְבַת־זֶ֖רַע לְטָמְאָה־בָֽהּ׃

[Leviticus 15:32: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.15.32/)

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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:458` 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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