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title: Genesis 6:19 (JPS 1917) — And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou… · tree and pragmatics
description: And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female. Who acts: thou, wives. Genesis 6:19 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 6:19 · JPS 1917

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And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.

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**Who acts:** thou, wives · **What happens:** bring, keep, be · **To what, where:** two, ark, wives

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This is Genesis 6:19 · 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 (thou, wives), 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:168
# text = And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
4	living	live	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	flesh	flesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
10	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	nsubj	_	_
16	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	ark	ark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	22	obl	_	_
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
29	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	cop	_	_
31	male	male	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	parataxis	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	female	female	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	conj	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed voice=character, act=request

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | shall | thou | two of every sort |  | the ark |  | of every living thing of all flesh | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent two=Theme into ark=Destination |
| 2 | **keep** | to-infinitive | thou *not said here* | wives *= wife* |  |  |  | with thee; alive *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | shall | wives *= wife* |  |  |  |  | male *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | wives *= wife* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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וּמִכָּל־הָ֠חַי מִֽכָּל־בָּשָׂ֞ר שְׁנַ֧יִם מִכֹּ֛ל תָּבִ֥יא אֶל־הַתֵּבָ֖ה לְהַחֲיֹ֣ת אִתָּ֑ךְ זָכָ֥ר וּנְקֵבָ֖ה יִֽהְיֽוּ׃

[Genesis 6:19: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.6.19/)

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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:168` 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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