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title: Genesis 6:20 (JPS 1917) — Of the fowl after their kind, and of the cattle after their kind, of… · tree and pragmatics
description: Of the fowl after their kind, and of the cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive. Who acts: two. Genesis 6:20 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 6:20 · JPS 1917

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Of the fowl after their kind, and of the cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.

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**Who acts:** two · **What happens:** come, keep · **To what, where:** wives

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This is Genesis 6:20 · 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 (two), 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:169
# text = Of the fowl after their kind, and of the cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	fowl	fowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
4	after	after	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
12	after	after	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
18	creeping	creeping	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	after	after	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
27	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	nsubj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	30	det	_	_
30	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
33	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	32	obl	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	advcl	_	_
38	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obj	_	_
39	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	xcomp	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	32	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | shall | two of every sort |  |  |  |  | of the fowl after wives's kind and the cattle after wives's kind of every creeping thing of the ground after thing's kind; unto thee | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme of fowl=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **keep** | to-infinitive | two of every sort *not said here* | wives *= wife* |  |  |  | alive *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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מֵהָע֣וֹף לְמִינֵ֗הוּ וּמִן־הַבְּהֵמָה֙ לְמִינָ֔הּ מִכֹּ֛ל רֶ֥מֶשׂ הָֽאֲדָמָ֖ה לְמִינֵ֑הוּ שְׁנַ֧יִם מִכֹּ֛ל יָבֹ֥אוּ אֵלֶ֖יךָ לְהַֽחֲיֽוֹת׃

[Genesis 6:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.6.20/)

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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:169` 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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