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title: Exodus 6:20 (JPS 1917) — And Amram took him Jochebed his father's sister to wife; and she bor… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Amram took him Jochebed his father's sister to wife; and she bore him Aaron and Moses. Who acts: Amram, Jochebed. Exodus 6:20 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exodus 6:20 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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And Amram took him Jochebed his father's sister to wife; and she bore him Aaron and Moses.

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**Who acts:** Amram, Jochebed · **What happens:** take, bear · **To what, where:** Jochebed, Mushi, Aaron

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This is Exodus 6:20 · 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 (Amram, Jochebed), 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:164
# text = And Amram took him Jochebed his father's sister to wife; and she bore him Aaron and Moses.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Amram	Amram	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	Jochebed	Jochebed	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	bore	bear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	iobj	_	_
17	Aaron	Aaron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	Moses	Moses	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **take** | past | Amram | Jochebed | Mushi |  |  | to wife | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Theme jochebed=Destination |
| 2 | **bear** | past | Jochebed | Aaron and Moses | Mushi |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary aaron=Patient |

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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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וַיִּקַּ֨ח עַמְרָ֜ם אֶת־יוֹכֶ֤בֶד דֹּֽדָתוֹ֙ ל֣וֹ לְאִשָּׁ֔ה וַתֵּ֣לֶד ל֔וֹ אֶֽת־אַהֲרֹ֖ן וְאֶת־מֹשֶׁ֑ה וּשְׁנֵי֙ חַיֵּ֣י עַמְרָ֔ם שֶׁ֧בַע וּשְׁלֹשִׁ֛ים וּמְאַ֖ת שָׁנָֽה׃

[Exodus 6:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.6.20/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **And Amram took him Jochebed his father's sister to wife; and she bore him Aaron and Moses.**
2. [And the years of the life of Amram were a hundred and thirty and seven years.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.165/)

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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:164` 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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