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title: Leviticus 22:13 (JPS 1917) — But if a priest's daughter be a widow, or divorced, and have no chil… · tree and pragmatics
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# Leviticus 22:13 · JPS 1917

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But if a priest's daughter be a widow, or divorced, and have no child, and is returned unto her father's house, as in her youth, she may eat of her father's bread; but there shall no common man eat thereof.

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**Who acts:** daughter, common man · **What happens:** be, divorced, have, return, eat · **To what, where:** widow, child

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This is Leviticus 22:13 · 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 (daughter, common 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:644
# text = But if a priest's daughter be a widow, or divorced, and have no child, and is returned unto her father's house, as in her youth, she may eat of her father's bread; but there shall no common man eat thereof.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	widow	widow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	advcl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	divorced	divorced	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Sub|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
16	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	17	det	_	_
17	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	returned	return	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
22	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	's	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	as	as	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
33	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
37	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod:poss	_	_
39	's	's	PART	POS	_	38	case	_	_
40	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
41	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	48	punct	_	_
42	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
43	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	48	expl	_	_
44	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
45	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	47	det	_	_
46	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nsubj	_	_
48	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	conj	_	_
49	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	35	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=request

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen* | infinitive | a priest's daughter | a widow |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **divorced** | participle | a priest's daughter *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | present | a priest's daughter *not said here* | no child |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient |
| 4 | **return** | present · passive | a priest's daughter *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto daughter's father's house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V» |
| 5 | **eat** | may | daughter |  |  |  |  | as daughter's youth; of daughter's father's bread | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of bread=Source |
| 6 | **eat** | shall | no common man |  |  | there |  | thereof *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: 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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וּבַת־כֹּהֵן֩ כִּ֨י תִהְיֶ֜ה אַלְמָנָ֣ה וּגְרוּשָׁ֗ה וְזֶרַע֮ אֵ֣ין לָהּ֒ וְשָׁבָ֞ה אֶל־בֵּ֤ית אָבִ֙יהָ֙ כִּנְעוּרֶ֔יהָ מִלֶּ֥חֶם אָבִ֖יהָ תֹּאכֵ֑ל וְכָל־זָ֖ר לֹא־יֹ֥אכַל בּֽוֹ׃ס

[Leviticus 22:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.22.13/)

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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:644` of Mova's parse database.

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