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title: Genesis 13:6 — And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell togeth… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics
description: And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together; for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together. Who acts: land, flocks, substance. Genesis 13:6 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Onkelos, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 13:6 בְּרֵאשִׁית

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**Who acts:** land, flocks, substance · **What happens:** not be, bear, dwell, be, not dwell · **To what, where:** flocks

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This is Genesis 13:6 from Mova's open Bible corpus, the Tanakh in three languages (The Torah). The page gives the verse in Hebrew as the Westminster Leningrad Codex has it, its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, built from MACULA Hebrew — and its pragmatics: who acts — land, flocks, substance — and what happens in the verse to flocks, read clause by clause by Mova's frames. Beside it stand the Aramaic of Targum Onkelos and the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, each English sentence with a tree of its own. It is one of the 50 chapters of Genesis on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between.

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וְלֹא־נָשָׂ֥א אֹתָ֛ם הָאָ֖רֶץ לָשֶׁ֣בֶת יַחְדָּ֑ו כִּֽי־הָיָ֤ה רְכוּשָׁם֙ רָ֔ב וְלֹ֥א יָֽכְל֖וּ לָשֶׁ֥בֶת יַחְדָּֽו׃

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[And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together; for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.339/)

## The tree {#tree}

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Right to left, as the Hebrew is read; a prefix or suffix is a word of its own, and a line under the words joins those written as one. Under each word its part of speech and MACULA's English gloss.

```conllu rtl gloss
# sent_id = wlc:GEN:324
# text = וְלֹא־נָשָׂ֥א אֹתָ֛ם הָאָ֖רֶץ לָשֶׁ֣בֶת יַחְדָּ֑ו כִּֽי־הָיָ֤ה רְכוּשָׁם֙ רָ֔ב וְלֹ֥א יָֽכְל֖וּ לָשֶׁ֥בֶת יַחְדָּֽו׃
# verse = GEN.13.6
1-2	וְלֹא־	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
1	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	3	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_13:6!1|MId=o010130060011|Strong=2050b
2	לֹא־	לֹא	ADV	_	_	3	advmod	_	Gloss=not|Ref=GEN_13:6!1|MId=o010130060012|Strong=3808|Type=negative
3	נָשָׂ֥א	נָשָׂא	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3	0	root	_	Gloss=it.supported|Ref=GEN_13:6!2|MId=o010130060021|Strong=5375|Frame=A1:010130060032;A0:010130060042;|Type=qatal
4-5	אֹתָ֛ם	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
4	אֹת	אֵת	ADP	_	_	5	case	_	Gloss=|Ref=GEN_13:6!3|MId=o010130060031|Strong=0853|Type=direct_object_marker
5	ָ֛ם	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	Gloss=them|Ref=GEN_13:6!3|MId=o010130060032|Strong=3963a|Type=pronominal
6-7	הָאָ֖רֶץ	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
6	הָ	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	7	det	_	Gloss=the|Ref=GEN_13:6!4|MId=o010130060041|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
7	אָ֖רֶץ	אֶרֶץ	NOUN	_	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	Gloss=land|Ref=GEN_13:6!4|MId=o010130060042|Strong=0776
8-9	לָשֶׁ֣בֶת	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
8	לָ	לְ	ADP	_	_	9	case	_	Gloss=to|Ref=GEN_13:6!5|MId=o010130060051|Strong=3807a
9	שֶׁ֣בֶת	יָשַׁב	VERB	_	HebBinyan=QAL	3	advcl	_	Gloss=dwell|Ref=GEN_13:6!5|MId=o010130060052|Strong=3427|Frame=A0:010130050022;010130050051;|Type=infinitive_construct
10	יַחְדָּ֑ו	יָחְדָּו	ADV	_	_	9	advmod	_	Gloss=together|Ref=GEN_13:6!6|MId=o010130060061|Strong=3162a
11	כִּֽי־	כִּי	SCONJ	_	_	15	mark	_	Gloss=(dm)|Ref=GEN_13:6!7|MId=o010130060071|Strong=3588|SpaceAfter=No
12	הָיָ֤ה	הָיָה	AUX	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3	15	cop	_	Gloss=it.was|Ref=GEN_13:6!8|MId=o010130060081|Strong=1961|Frame=A0:010130060091;|Type=qatal
13-14	רְכוּשָׁם֙	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
13	רְכוּשׁ	רְכוּשׁ	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	Gloss=possession[s]|Ref=GEN_13:6!9|MId=o010130060091|Strong=7399
14	ָם֙	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	Gloss=their|Ref=GEN_13:6!9|MId=o010130060092|Strong=3963a|Type=pronominal
15	רָ֔ב	רַב	ADJ	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	3	advcl	_	Gloss=much|Ref=GEN_13:6!10|MId=o010130060101|Strong=7227|Type=adjective
16-17	וְלֹ֥א	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
16	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	18	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_13:6!11|MId=o010130060111|Strong=2050b
17	לֹ֥א	לֹא	ADV	_	_	18	advmod	_	Gloss=not|Ref=GEN_13:6!11|MId=o010130060112|Strong=3808|Type=negative
18	יָֽכְל֖וּ	יָכֹל	VERB	_	Gender=Com|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3	3	conj	_	Gloss=they.were.able|Ref=GEN_13:6!12|MId=o010130060121|Strong=3201|Frame=A0:010130050022;010130050051;|Type=qatal
19-20	לָשֶׁ֥בֶת	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
19	לָ	לְ	ADP	_	_	20	case	_	Gloss=to|Ref=GEN_13:6!13|MId=o010130060131|Strong=3807a
20	שֶׁ֥בֶת	יָשַׁב	VERB	_	HebBinyan=QAL	18	xcomp	_	Gloss=dwell|Ref=GEN_13:6!13|MId=o010130060132|Strong=3427|Frame=A0:010130050022;010130050051;|Type=infinitive_construct
21	יַחְדָּֽו	יָחְדָּו	ADV	_	_	20	advmod	_	Gloss=together|Ref=GEN_13:6!14|MId=o010130060141|Strong=3162a|SpaceAfter=No
22	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	_	21	punct	_	Ref=GEN_13:6!14
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- speech: narration
- negation: yes

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| verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| **not** נָשָׂא *it supported* | qatal · qal | אָרֶץ *land* | ָם *them* |  |  |
| שֶׁבֶת *dwell* | infinitive construct · qal |  |  |  |  |
| הָיָה *it was* | qatal · qal | רְכוּשׁ *possession\[s\]* |  |  |  |
| **not** יָֽכְלוּ *they were able* | qatal · qal |  |  |  |  |
| שֶׁבֶת *dwell* | infinitive construct · qal |  |  |  |  |

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MACULA's semantic frames: for each verb the head word of each participant. A0 is the one who acts, A1 what the act is done to or is about, A2 a further participant; AA, with a causative verb, the one who makes it happen.

## Targum Onkelos {#onkelos}

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וְלָא סוֹבָרַת יָתְהוֹן אַרְעָא לְמִיתַב כַּחֲדָא אֲרֵי הֲוָה קִנְיָנְהוֹן סַגִּי וְלָא יְכִילוּ לְמִיתַּב כַּחֲדָא

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The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet.

## English, JPS 1917 {#english}

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Each sentence on its own page, with its tree and pragmatics. A sentence that runs on into the next verse is listed under the verse it begins in.

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1. [And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together; for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.339/)

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**Hebrew text:** Westminster Leningrad Codex, public domain. **Tree, glosses and frames:** MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets, available at [github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew](https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew/), [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); converted to Universal Dependencies by Mova (words in text order, a prefix its own word). **Speech act:** Mova's rules on the MACULA words (`macula prag`). **Targum:** Onkelos (Torat Emet), Jonathan and the Writings (Mikraot Gedolot), from Sefaria, public domain.

**English:** JPS 1917, public domain; trees and speech acts by Mova's cycle, frames by Mova's reader (Elamur Cosmic License).

Hebrew sentence `wlc:GEN:324`.

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