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title: Genesis 49:5 (JPS 1917) — Simeon and Levi are brethren; weapons of violence their kinship. · tree and pragmatics
description: Simeon and Levi are brethren; weapons of violence their kinship. Who acts: Simeon. Genesis 49:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 49:5 · JPS 1917

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Simeon and Levi are brethren; weapons of violence their kinship.

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**Who acts:** Simeon · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** brethren

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This is Genesis 49:5 · 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 (Simeon), 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:1603
# text = Simeon and Levi are brethren; weapons of violence their kinship.
1	Simeon	Simeon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	Levi	Levi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	brethren	brethren	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
7	weapons	weapon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	parataxis	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	violence	violence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	kinship	kinship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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** | present | Simeon and Levi | brethren |  |  |  |  | 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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שִׁמְע֥וֹן וְלֵוִ֖י אַחִ֑ים כְּלֵ֥י חָמָ֖ס מְכֵרֹתֵיהֶֽם׃

[Genesis 49:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.49.5/)

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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:1603` 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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