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title: Genesis 4:24 (JPS 1917) — If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfo… · tree and pragmatics
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# Genesis 4:24 · JPS 1917

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If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.

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**What happens:** avenge · **To what, where:** Cain

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This is Genesis 4:24 · 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:GEN:113
# text = If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	Cain	Cain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	avenged	avenge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	_
6	sevenfold	sevenfold	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
8	truly	truly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	Lamech	Lamech	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	seventy	seventy	ADV	RB	NumType=Mult	9	advmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	sevenfold	sevenfold	ADV	RB	NumType=Mult	10	conj	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **avenge** | shall · passive |  | Cain |  |  |  | sevenfold *property* | 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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כִּ֥י שִׁבְעָתַ֖יִם יֻקַּם־קָ֑יִן וְלֶ֖מֶךְ שִׁבְעִ֥ים וְשִׁבְעָֽה׃

[Genesis 4:24: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.4.24/)

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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:113` 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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