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title: Genesis 6:3 (JPS 1917) — And the LORD said: 'My spirit shall not abide in man for ever, for t… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the LORD said: 'My spirit shall not abide in man for ever, for that he also is flesh; therefore shall his days be a hundred and twenty years.' Who acts: LORD, spirit, days. Genesis 6:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 6:3 · JPS 1917

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And the LORD said: 'My spirit shall not abide in man for ever, for that he also is flesh; therefore shall his days be a hundred and twenty years.'

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**Who acts:** LORD, spirit, days · **What happens:** say, not abide, be · **To what, where:** flesh, hundred years · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Genesis 6:3 · 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 (LORD, spirit, days), 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:151
# text = And the LORD said: 'My spirit shall not abide in man for ever, for that he also is flesh; therefore shall his days be a hundred and twenty years.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
6	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
7	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	abide	abide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	ever	ever	NOUN	RB	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	fixed	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	also	also	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	flesh	flesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	advcl	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
24	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
25	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	cop	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	conj	_	_
33	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	parataxis	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
35	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the LORD |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **abide** | shall | My spirit |  |  |  |  | in man; for ever | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | spirit | flesh |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | shall | spirit's days | hundred years |  |  |  | therefore *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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וַיֹּ֣אמֶר יְהוָ֗ה לֹֽא־יָד֨וֹן רוּחִ֤י בָֽאָדָם֙ לְעֹלָ֔ם בְּשַׁגַּ֖ם ה֣וּא בָשָׂ֑ר וְהָי֣וּ יָמָ֔יו מֵאָ֥ה וְעֶשְׂרִ֖ים שָׁנָֽה׃

[Genesis 6:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.6.3/)

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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:151` 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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