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title: Genesis 7:2 (JPS 1917) — Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee seven and seven, each w… · tree and pragmatics
description: Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee seven and seven, each with his mate; and of the beasts that are not clean two and two, each with his mate; Who acts: thou, beasts. Genesis 7:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 7:2 · JPS 1917

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Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee seven and seven, each with his mate; and of the beasts that are not clean two and two, each with his mate;

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**Who acts:** thou, beasts · **What happens:** take, not be · **To what, where:** seven, thee

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This is Genesis 7:2 · 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, beasts), 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:173
# text = Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee seven and seven, each with his mate; and of the beasts that are not clean two and two, each with his mate;
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
3	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
5	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	nsubj	_	_
6	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	obl	_	_
10	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	appos	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	orphan	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
24	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	acl:relcl	_	_
27	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	conj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	conj	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	appos	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
35	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed act=request, indirect=1, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | shall | thou | seven |  | thee |  | of every clean beast | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent seven=Theme of beast=Initial\_Location to thou=Destination |
| 2 | **not** **is** | present | the beasts |  |  |  |  | clean *property* | 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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מִכֹּ֣ל ׀ הַבְּהֵמָ֣ה הַטְּהוֹרָ֗ה תִּֽקַּח־לְךָ֛ שִׁבְעָ֥ה שִׁבְעָ֖ה אִ֣ישׁ וְאִשְׁתּ֑וֹ וּמִן־הַבְּהֵמָ֡ה אֲ֠שֶׁר לֹ֣א טְהֹרָ֥ה הִ֛וא שְׁנַ֖יִם אִ֥ישׁ וְאִשְׁתּֽוֹ׃

[Genesis 7:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.7.2/)

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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:173` 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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