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title: Genesis 6:14 (JPS 1917) — Make thee an ark of gopher wood; with rooms shalt thou make the ark,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Make thee an ark of gopher wood; with rooms shalt thou make the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. Who acts: you, thou. Genesis 6:14 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 6:14 · JPS 1917

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Make thee an ark of gopher wood; with rooms shalt thou make the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.

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**Who acts:** you, thou · **What happens:** make, pitch · **To what, where:** ark, thee

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This is Genesis 6:14 · 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 (you, thou), 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:163
# text = Make thee an ark of gopher wood; with rooms shalt thou make the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
1	Make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	1	iobj	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	ark	ark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	gopher	gopher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	rooms	room	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
11	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	nsubj	_	_
13	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	ark	ark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	pitch	pitch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	within	within	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	without	without	ADV	RB	_	21	conj	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	pitch	pitch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | imperative | you *not said here* | a ark of gopher wood | thee |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset thou=Beneficiary ark=Product |
| 2 | **make** | shall | thou | the ark |  |  |  | with rooms | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset ark=Product |
| 3 | **pitch** | shall | thou *not said here* | ark |  |  |  | with pitch; within *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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עֲשֵׂ֤ה לְךָ֙ תֵּבַ֣ת עֲצֵי־גֹ֔פֶר קִנִּ֖ים תַּֽעֲשֶׂ֣ה אֶת־הַתֵּבָ֑ה וְכָֽפַרְתָּ֥ אֹתָ֛הּ מִבַּ֥יִת וּמִח֖וּץ בַּכֹּֽפֶר׃

[Genesis 6:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.6.14/)

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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:163` 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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