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title: Genesis 4:20 (JPS 1917) — And Adah bore Jabal; he was the father of such as dwell in tents and… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Adah bore Jabal; he was the father of such as dwell in tents and have cattle. Who acts: Adah, Lamech, father. Genesis 4:20 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 4:20 · JPS 1917

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And Adah bore Jabal; he was the father of such as dwell in tents and have cattle.

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**Who acts:** Adah, Lamech, father · **What happens:** bear, be, dwell, have · **To what, where:** Jabal, tents, cattle

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This is Genesis 4:20 · 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 (Adah, Lamech, father), 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:109
# text = And Adah bore Jabal; he was the father of such as dwell in tents and have cattle.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Adah	Adah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	bore	bear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Jabal	Jabal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
11	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	9	amod	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
13	dwell	dwell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	tents	tent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
18	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
19	.	.	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 | **bear** | past | Adah | Jabal |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jabal=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | past | Lamech |  |  |  |  | of the father | tree rules |
| 3 | **dwell** | present | the father *not said here* |  |  | tents |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tent=Location |
| 4 | **have** | present | the father *not said here* | cattle |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cattle=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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וַתֵּ֥לֶד עָדָ֖ה אֶת־יָבָ֑ל ה֣וּא הָיָ֔ה אֲבִ֕י יֹשֵׁ֥ב אֹ֖הֶל וּמִקְנֶֽה׃

[Genesis 4:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.4.20/)

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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:109` 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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