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title: Genesis 4:22 (JPS 1917) — And Zillah, she also bore Tubal-cain, the forger of every cutting in… · tree and pragmatics
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# Genesis 4:22 · JPS 1917

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And Zillah, she also bore Tubal-cain, the forger of every cutting instrument of brass and iron; and the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.

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**Who acts:** Zillah, sister · **What happens:** bear, be · **To what, where:** Tubal, Naamah

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This is Genesis 4:22 · 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 (Zillah, sister), 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:111
# text = And Zillah, she also bore Tubal-cain, the forger of every cutting instrument of brass and iron; and the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	Zillah	Zillah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	dislocated	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	also	also	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	bore	bear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Tubal	Tubal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	_
9	cain	cain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	forger	forger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
15	cutting	cutting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	instrument	instrument	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	brass	brass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Tubal	Tubal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	_
28	cain	Cain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	flat	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
30	Naamah	Naamah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | Zillah | Tubal |  |  |  | Zillah *dislocated* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tubal=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the sister of Tubal | Naamah |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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וְצִלָּ֣ה גַם־הִ֗וא יָֽלְדָה֙ אֶת־תּ֣וּבַל קַ֔יִן תּ֣וּבַל קַ֔יִן לֹטֵ֕שׁ כָּל־חֹרֵ֥שׁ נְחֹ֖שֶׁת וּבַרְזֶ֑ל וַֽאֲח֥וֹת תּֽוּבַל־קַ֖יִןתּֽוּבַל־קַ֖יִן נַֽעֲמָֽה׃

[Genesis 4:22: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.4.22/)

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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:111` 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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