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title: Exodus 6:17 (JPS 1917) — The sons of Gershon: Libni and Shimei, according to their families. · tree and pragmatics
description: The sons of Gershon: Libni and Shimei, according to their families. Exodus 6:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exodus 6:17 · JPS 1917

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The sons of Gershon: Libni and Shimei, according to their families.

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This is Exodus 6:17 · 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: 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:159
# text = The sons of Gershon: Libni and Shimei, according to their families.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Gershon	Gershon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Libni	Libni	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	Shimei	Shimei	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	according	according	ADP	VBG	_	13	case	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	fixed	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

## The Hebrew of this verse {#hebrew}

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בְּנֵ֥י גֵרְשׁ֛וֹן לִבְנִ֥י וְשִׁמְעִ֖י לְמִשְׁפְּחֹתָֽם׃

[Exodus 6:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.6.17/)

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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:159` 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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