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title: Leviticus 5:3 (JPS 1917) — or if he touch the uncleanness of man, whatsoever his uncleanness be… · tree and pragmatics
description: or if he touch the uncleanness of man, whatsoever his uncleanness be wherewith he is unclean, and it be hid from him; and, when he knoweth of it, be guilty; Who acts: he, uncleanness, man, you. Leviticus 5:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Leviticus 5:3 · JPS 1917

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or if he touch the uncleanness of man, whatsoever his uncleanness be wherewith he is unclean, and it be hid from him; and, when he knoweth of it, be guilty;

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**Who acts:** he, uncleanness, man, you · **What happens:** touch, be, hide, know · **To what, where:** uncleanness, whatsoever

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This is Leviticus 5:3 · 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 (he, uncleanness, man, you), 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:87
# text = or if he touch the uncleanness of man, whatsoever his uncleanness be wherewith he is unclean, and it be hid from him; and, when he knoweth of it, be guilty;
1	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	touch	touch	VERB	VB	Mood=Sub|VerbForm=Fin	35	advcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	uncleanness	uncleanness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	whatsoever	whatsoever	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	advcl	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	uncleanness	uncleanness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	Mood=Sub|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
14	wherewith	wherewith	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	17	advmod	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	unclean	unclean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	acl:relcl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	Mood=Sub|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	hid	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	_
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	30	mark	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	knoweth	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	advcl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
34	be	be	AUX	VB	Mood=Sub|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
35	guilty	guilty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
36	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **touch** *a condition, not said to happen* | infinitive | he | the uncleanness of man |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme uncleanness=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | infinitive | man's uncleanness | whatsoever |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | man |  |  |  |  | unclean, wherewith *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **hide** | infinitive · passive |  | uncleanness |  |  |  | from man | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Patient from he=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **know** | present | man |  |  |  |  | of uncleanness | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of it=Stimulus |
| 6 | **is** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | guilty *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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א֣וֹ כִ֤י יִגַּע֙ בְּטֻמְאַ֣ת אָדָ֔ם לְכֹל֙ טֻמְאָת֔וֹ אֲשֶׁ֥ר יִטְמָ֖א בָּ֑הּ וְנֶעְלַ֣ם מִמֶּ֔נּוּ וְה֥וּא יָדַ֖ע וְאָשֵֽׁם׃

[Leviticus 5:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.5.3/)

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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:87` 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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