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title: Leviticus 17:16 (JPS 1917) — But if he wash them not, nor bathe his flesh, then he shall bear his… · tree and pragmatics
description: But if he wash them not, nor bathe his flesh, then he shall bear his iniquity. Who acts: Israel. Leviticus 17:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Leviticus 17:16 · JPS 1917

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But if he wash them not, nor bathe his flesh, then he shall bear his iniquity.

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**Who acts:** Israel · **What happens:** not wash, bathe, bear · **To what, where:** clothes, flesh, iniquity

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This is Leviticus 17:16 · 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 (Israel), 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:510
# text = But if he wash them not, nor bathe his flesh, then he shall bear his iniquity.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	wash	wash	VERB	VBP	Mood=Sub|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	9	cc	_	_
9	bathe	bathe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	flesh	flesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	iniquity	iniquity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **not** **wash** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | Israel | clothes |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 2 | **bathe** | infinitive | Israel *not said here* | Israel's flesh |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme flesh=Destination |
| 3 | **bear** | shall | Israel | Israel's iniquity |  |  | then |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent iniquity=Patient |

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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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וְאִם֙ לֹ֣א יְכַבֵּ֔ס וּבְשָׂר֖וֹ לֹ֣א יִרְחָ֑ץ וְנָשָׂ֖א עֲוֺנֽוֹ׃פ

[Leviticus 17:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.17.16/)

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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:510` 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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