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title: Genesis 5:3 (JPS 1917) — And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begot a son in his ow… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begot a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth. Who acts: Adam. Genesis 5:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 5:3 · JPS 1917

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And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begot a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth.

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**Who acts:** Adam · **What happens:** live, beget, call, image, name · **To what, where:** son, own likeness, name · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Genesis 5:3 · 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 (Adam), 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:119
# text = And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begot a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Adam	Adam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	det	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
8	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	begot	beget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	likeness	likeness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	after	after	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	image	image	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	Seth	Seth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	xcomp	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | Adam |  |  |  | year |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **beget** | past | Adam *not said here* | a son |  | Adam's own likeness | after Adam's image |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient |
| 3 | **call** | past | Adam *not said here* | Adam's name |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient |
| 4 | **image** |  | Adam |  |  |  |  |  | nom image «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **name** |  | Adam |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication 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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וַֽיְחִ֣י אָדָ֗ם שְׁלֹשִׁ֤ים וּמְאַת֙ שָׁנָ֔ה וַיּ֥וֹלֶד בִּדְמוּת֖וֹ כְּצַלְמ֑וֹ וַיִּקְרָ֥א אֶת־שְׁמ֖וֹ שֵֽׁת׃

[Genesis 5:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.5.3/)

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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:119` 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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