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title: Leviticus 21:3 (JPS 1917) — and for his sister a virgin, that is near unto him, that hath had no… · tree and pragmatics
description: and for his sister a virgin, that is near unto him, that hath had no husband, for her may he defile himself. Who acts: virgin, LORD. Leviticus 21:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Leviticus 21:3 · JPS 1917

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and for his sister a virgin, that is near unto him, that hath had no husband, for her may he defile himself.

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**Who acts:** virgin, LORD · **What happens:** be, have, defile · **To what, where:** husband, LORD

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This is Leviticus 21:3 · 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 (virgin, LORD), 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:609
# text = and for his sister a virgin, that is near unto him, that hath had no husband, for her may he defile himself.
1	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	dislocated	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	virgin	virgin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	near	near	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	acl:relcl	_	_
11	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
15	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	acl:relcl	_	_
17	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	18	det	_	_
18	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	_
22	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	defile	defile	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
25	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	24	obj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | a virgin |  |  |  |  | unto LORD; near *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present · perfect | a virgin | no husband |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Patient |
| 3 | **defile** | may | LORD | LORD |  |  |  | for Moses; LORD's sister *dislocated* | 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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וְלַאֲחֹת֤וֹ הַבְּתוּלָה֙ הַקְּרוֹבָ֣ה אֵלָ֔יו אֲשֶׁ֥ר לֹֽא־הָיְתָ֖ה לְאִ֑ישׁ לָ֖הּ יִטַּמָּֽא׃

[Leviticus 21:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.21.3/)

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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:609` 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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