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title: Genesis 6:17 (JPS 1917) — And I, behold, I do bring the flood of waters upon the earth, to des… · tree and pragmatics
description: And I, behold, I do bring the flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; every thing that is in the earth shall perish. Who acts: I, thing, waters. Genesis 6:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 6:17 · JPS 1917

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And I, behold, I do bring the flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; every thing that is in the earth shall perish.

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**Who acts:** I, thing, waters · **What happens:** bring, destroy, be, perish, flood · **To what, where:** flood, flesh, breath, heaven, earth

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This is Genesis 6:17 · 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 (I, thing, waters), 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:166
# text = And I, behold, I do bring the flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; every thing that is in the earth shall perish.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	flood	flood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
13	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	destroy	destroy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
19	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
20	flesh	flesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	wherein	wherein	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	25	advmod	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	acl:relcl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	under	under	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
32	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	41	punct	_	_
33	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	34	det	_	_
34	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
35	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	39	nsubj	_	_
36	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	acl:relcl	_	_
40	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
41	perish	perish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **bring** | present · do-support | I | the flood of waters |  |  |  | upon the earth | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent flood=Theme |
| 2 | **destroy** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | all flesh |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flesh=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | the breath |  | heaven |  | of life; wherein *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | every thing |  |  | the earth |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **perish** | shall | every thing |  |  |  |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **flood** |  | waters |  |  |  |  |  | nom flood «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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וַאֲנִ֗י הִנְנִי֩ מֵבִ֨יא אֶת־הַמַּבּ֥וּל מַ֙יִם֙ עַל־הָאָ֔רֶץ לְשַׁחֵ֣ת כָּל־בָּשָׂ֗ר אֲשֶׁר־בּוֹ֙ ר֣וּחַ חַיִּ֔ים מִתַּ֖חַת הַשָּׁמָ֑יִם כֹּ֥ל אֲשֶׁר־בָּאָ֖רֶץ יִגְוָֽע׃

[Genesis 6:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.6.17/)

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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:166` 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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