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title: Genesis 6:9 (JPS 1917) — Noah was in his generations a man righteous and whole-hearted; Noah… · tree and pragmatics
description: Noah was in his generations a man righteous and whole-hearted; Noah walked with God. Who acts: Noah. Genesis 6:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 6:9 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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Noah was in his generations a man righteous and whole-hearted; Noah walked with God.

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**Who acts:** Noah · **What happens:** be, walk · **To what, where:** man, generations

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This is Genesis 6:9 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 (Noah), 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:158
# text = Noah was in his generations a man righteous and whole-hearted; Noah walked with God.
1	Noah	Noah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	generations	generation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	righteous	righteous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	_
12	hearted	heart	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
14	Noah	Noah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **is a** | past | Noah | a man |  |  | in Noah's generations |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **walk** | past | Noah |  |  |  |  | with God | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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אֵ֚לֶּה תּוֹלְדֹ֣ת נֹ֔חַ נֹ֗חַ אִ֥ישׁ צַדִּ֛יק תָּמִ֥ים הָיָ֖ה בְּדֹֽרֹתָ֑יו אֶת־הָֽאֱלֹהִ֖ים הִֽתְהַלֶּךְ־נֹֽחַ׃

[Genesis 6:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.6.9/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [These are the generations of Noah.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.157/)
2. **Noah was in his generations a man righteous and whole-hearted; Noah walked with God.**

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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:158` 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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