---
title: Exodus 6:16 (JPS 1917) — And the years of the life of Levi were a hundred thirty and seven ye… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the years of the life of Levi were a hundred thirty and seven years. Who acts: years. Exodus 6:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.158/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Torah](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/) / [Exodus](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO/) / [chapter 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO/6/) / [6:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.6.16/) / JPS 2

# Exodus 6:16 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
And the years of the life of Levi were a hundred thirty and seven years.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** years · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** thirty years

<!-- .vabout -->
This is Exodus 6:16 · 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 (years), 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:158
# text = And the years of the life of Levi were a hundred thirty and seven years.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Levi	Levi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	conj	_	_
15	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- sa -->
- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the years of the life of Levi | thirty years |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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}

<!-- .vhe dir=rtl lang=hbo -->
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/)

<!-- .note -->
This verse in JPS 1917:

<!-- .ens -->
1. [And these are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations: Gershon and Kohath, and Merari.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.157/)
2. **And the years of the life of Levi were a hundred thirty and seven years.**

<!-- div src -->

**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EXO:158` 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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Exodus 6:16 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.157/)
- next →: [Exodus 6:17 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.159/)
- ↑ back to [Exodus 6:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.6.16/)