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title: Genesis 5:25 (JPS 1917) — And Methuselah lived a hundred eighty and seven years, and begot Lam… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Methuselah lived a hundred eighty and seven years, and begot Lamech. Who acts: Methuselah. Genesis 5:25 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 5:25 · JPS 1917

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And Methuselah lived a hundred eighty and seven years, and begot Lamech.

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**Who acts:** Methuselah · **What happens:** live, beget · **To what, where:** Lamech

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This is Genesis 5:25 · 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 (Methuselah), 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:141
# text = And Methuselah lived a hundred eighty and seven years, and begot Lamech.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Methuselah	Methuselah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
6	eighty	eighty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	conj	_	_
9	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	begot	beget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	Lamech	Lamech	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	.	.	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 | **live** | past | Methuselah |  |  |  | year |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **beget** | past | Methuselah *not said here* | Lamech |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lamech=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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וַיְחִ֣י מְתוּשֶׁ֔לַח שֶׁ֧בַע וּשְׁמֹנִ֛ים שָׁנָ֖ה וּמְאַ֣ת שָׁנָ֑ה וַיּ֖וֹלֶד אֶת־לָֽמֶךְ׃

[Genesis 5:25: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.5.25/)

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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:141` 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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