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title: Leviticus 21:18 (JPS 1917) — For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach:… · tree and pragmatics
description: For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath any thing maimed, or anything too long, Who acts: man. Leviticus 21:18 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Leviticus 21:18 · JPS 1917

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For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath any thing maimed, or anything too long,

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** be, not approach, have, maim · **To what, where:** blind man, thing

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This is Leviticus 21:18 · 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 (man), 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:624
# text = For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath any thing maimed, or anything too long,
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
2	whatsoever	whatsoever	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	3	det	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	hath	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	blemish	blemish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	approach	approach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	lame	lame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	conj	_	_
26	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
27	hath	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
28	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	29	det	_	_
29	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	maimed	maim	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	acl	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	18	conj	_	_
34	too	too	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | infinitive | man |  |  |  |  | have *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **approach** | shall | whatsoever man | a blind man or a lame |  |  |  |  | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | present |  | any thing |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient |
| 4 | **maim** | participle |  | any thing *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=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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כִּ֥י כָל־אִ֛ישׁ אֲשֶׁר־בּ֥וֹ מ֖וּם לֹ֣א יִקְרָ֑ב אִ֤ישׁ עִוֵּר֙ א֣וֹ פִסֵּ֔חַ א֥וֹ חָרֻ֖ם א֥וֹ שָׂרֽוּעַ׃

[Leviticus 21:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.21.18/)

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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:624` 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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