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title: Leviticus 22:4 (JPS 1917) — What man soever of the seed of Aaron is a leper, or hath an issue, h… · tree and pragmatics
description: What man soever of the seed of Aaron is a leper, or hath an issue, he shall not eat of the holy things, until he be clean. Who acts: man. Leviticus 22:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Leviticus 22:4 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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What man soever of the seed of Aaron is a leper, or hath an issue, he shall not eat of the holy things, until he be clean.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** be, have, not eat · **To what, where:** leper, issue

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This is Leviticus 22:4 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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:634
# text = What man soever of the seed of Aaron is a leper, or hath an issue, he shall not eat of the holy things, until he be clean.
1	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	soever	soever	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Aaron	Aaron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	leper	leper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	hath	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	issue	issue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	parataxis	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	cop	_	_
30	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	advcl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **is a** | present | what man of the seed of Aaron | a leper |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present | what man of the seed of Aaron *not said here* | a issue |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent issue=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **eat** | shall | man |  |  |  |  | of the holy things | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of thing=Source |
| 4 | **is** | infinitive | man |  |  |  |  | clean *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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אִ֣ישׁ אִ֞ישׁ מִזֶּ֣רַע אַהֲרֹ֗ן וְה֤וּא צָר֙וּעַ֙ א֣וֹ זָ֔ב בַּקֳּדָשִׁים֙ לֹ֣א יֹאכַ֔ל עַ֖ד אֲשֶׁ֣ר יִטְהָ֑ר וְהַנֹּגֵ֙עַ֙ בְּכָל־טְמֵא־נֶ֔פֶשׁ א֣וֹ אִ֔ישׁ אֲשֶׁר־תֵּצֵ֥א מִמֶּ֖נּוּ שִׁכְבַת־זָֽרַע׃

[Leviticus 22:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.22.4/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **What man soever of the seed of Aaron is a leper, or hath an issue, he shall not eat of the holy things, until he be clean.**
2. [And whoso toucheth any one that is unclean by the dead; or from whomsoever the flow of seed goeth out;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.635/)

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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:634` 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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