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title: Leviticus 22:4 (JPS 1917) — And whoso toucheth any one that is unclean by the dead; or from whom… · tree and pragmatics
description: And whoso toucheth any one that is unclean by the dead; or from whomsoever the flow of seed goeth out; Who acts: whoso, one, flow, seed. 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 2 of 2

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And whoso toucheth any one that is unclean by the dead; or from whomsoever the flow of seed goeth out;

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**Who acts:** whoso, one, flow, seed · **What happens:** touch, be, go out, flow · **To what, where:** one, whomsoever

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This is Leviticus 22:4 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 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 (whoso, one, 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:635
# text = And whoso toucheth any one that is unclean by the dead; or from whomsoever the flow of seed goeth out;
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	whoso	whoso	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	toucheth	touch	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
5	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	unclean	unclean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	obl	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	whomsoever	whomsoever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	obl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	flow	flow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	goeth	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
21	out	out	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **touch** | present | whoso | any one |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme one=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | any one |  |  |  |  | by the dead; unclean *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **go out** | present | the flow of seed |  |  | whomsoever |  |  | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **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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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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.634/)
2. **And whoso toucheth any one that is unclean by the dead; or from whomsoever the flow of seed goeth out;**

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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:635` 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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