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title: Genesis 6:12 (JPS 1917) — And God saw the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh ha… · tree and pragmatics
description: And God saw the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth. Who acts: God, earth, flesh. Genesis 6:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 6:12 · JPS 1917

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And God saw the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth.

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**Who acts:** God, earth, flesh · **What happens:** see, be, corrupt · **To what, where:** earth, way

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This is Genesis 6:12 · 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 (God, earth, flesh), 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:161
# text = And God saw the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	13	discourse	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	corrupt	corrupt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
15	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	flesh	flesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	corrupted	corrupt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | God | the earth |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer earth=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | past | earth |  |  |  |  | corrupt *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **corrupt** | past · perfect | all flesh | Shem's way |  |  |  | upon the earth | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent way=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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וַיַּ֧רְא אֱלֹהִ֛ים אֶת־הָאָ֖רֶץ וְהִנֵּ֣ה נִשְׁחָ֑תָה כִּֽי־הִשְׁחִ֧ית כָּל־בָּשָׂ֛ר אֶת־דַּרְכּ֖וֹ עַל־הָאָֽרֶץ׃ס

[Genesis 6:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.6.12/)

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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:161` 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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