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title: Genesis 4:13 (JPS 1917) — And Cain said unto the LORD: 'My punishment is greater than I can be… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Cain said unto the LORD: 'My punishment is greater than I can bear. Who acts: Cain, punishment, I, My. Genesis 4:13 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 4:13 · JPS 1917

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And Cain said unto the LORD: 'My punishment is greater than I can bear.

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**Who acts:** Cain, punishment, I, My · **What happens:** say, be, bear, punish · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Genesis 4:13 · 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: who acts (Cain, punishment, I, My), 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:GEN:102
# text = And Cain said unto the LORD: 'My punishment is greater than I can bear.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Cain	Cain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
8	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
9	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	punishment	punishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	ccomp	_	_
13	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Cain |  |  |  |  | unto the LORD | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | My punishment |  |  |  |  | great *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **bear** | can | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **punish** |  | My |  |  |  |  |  | nom punishment «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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וַיֹּ֥אמֶר קַ֖יִן אֶל־יְהוָ֑ה גָּד֥וֹל עֲוֺנִ֖י מִנְּשֹֽׂא׃

[Genesis 4:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.4.13/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:102` 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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