--- title: Genesis 7:4 (JPS 1917) — For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty… · tree and pragmatics description: For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I blot out from off the face of the earth.' Who acts: I, seed, living substance. 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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, seed, living substance), 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:175 # text = For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I blot out from off the face of the earth.' 1 For for ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 yet yet ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 3 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 4 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 7 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 8 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 cause cause VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 rain rain VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _ 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 12 obl _ _ 16 forty forty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 17 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl:unmarked _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 forty forty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 20 nights night NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 32 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 23 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 25 det _ _ 24 living live ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 substance substance NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 26 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 29 obj _ _ 27 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 28 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 25 acl:relcl _ _ 30 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 31 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 blot blot VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 33 out out ADP RP _ 32 compound:prt _ _ 34 from from ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 off off ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 32 punct _ _ 42 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 32 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: promise - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cause** | future | I | seed | | | day | | tree rules | | 2 | **rain** | to-infinitive | seed *not said here* | | | | day | upon the earth | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» | | 3 | **make** | present · perfect | I | every living substance | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Product | | 4 | **blot out** | future | every living substance | | | the face of the earth | | | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | 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} כִּי֩ לְיָמִ֨ים ע֜וֹד שִׁבְעָ֗ה אָֽנֹכִי֙ מַמְטִ֣יר עַל־הָאָ֔רֶץ אַרְבָּעִ֣ים י֔וֹם וְאַרְבָּעִ֖ים לָ֑יְלָה וּמָחִ֗יתִי אֶֽת־כָּל־הַיְקוּם֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר עָשִׂ֔יתִי מֵעַ֖ל פְּנֵ֥י הָֽאֲדָמָֽה׃ [Genesis 7:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.7.4/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:175` 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. - ← previous: [Genesis 7:3 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.174/) - next →: [Genesis 7:5 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.176/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 7:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.7.4/)