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title: Exodus 6:16 (JPS 1917) — And these are the names of the sons of Levi according to their gener… · tree and pragmatics
description: And these are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations: Gershon and Kohath, and Merari. Who acts: these. Exodus 6:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exodus 6:16 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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And these are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations: Gershon and Kohath, and Merari.

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**Who acts:** these · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** names

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This is Exodus 6:16 · 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 (these), 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:EXO:157
# text = And these are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations: Gershon and Kohath, and Merari.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Levi	Levi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	according	according	ADP	VBG	_	14	case	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	fixed	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	generations	generation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
16	Gershon	Gershon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	Kohath	Kohath	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	Merari	Merari	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | these | the names |  |  | according sons's generations | of the sons of Levi | 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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וְאֵ֨לֶּה שְׁמ֤וֹת בְּנֵֽי־לֵוִי֙ לְתֹ֣לְדֹתָ֔ם גֵּרְשׁ֕וֹן וּקְהָ֖ת וּמְרָרִ֑י וּשְׁנֵי֙ חַיֵּ֣י לֵוִ֔י שֶׁ֧בַע וּשְׁלֹשִׁ֛ים וּמְאַ֖ת שָׁנָֽה׃

[Exodus 6:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.6.16/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **And these are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations: Gershon and Kohath, and Merari.**
2. [And the years of the life of Levi were a hundred thirty and seven years.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.158/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EXO:157` 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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