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title: Genesis 7:9 (JPS 1917) — there went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, male and female, a… · tree and pragmatics
description: there went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, male and female, as God commanded Noah. Who acts: two, God. Genesis 7:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 7:9 · JPS 1917

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there went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, male and female, as God commanded Noah.

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**Who acts:** two, God · **What happens:** go, command · **To what, where:** ark, Noah · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Genesis 7:9 · 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, God), 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:180
# text = there went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, male and female, as God commanded Noah.
1	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	conj	_	_
7	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Noah	Noah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	ark	ark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	male	male	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	female	female	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	commanded	command	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
20	Noah	Noah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **go** | past | two |  |  | the ark; there |  | unto Noah | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into ark=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **command** | past | God | Noah |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent noah=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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שְׁנַ֨יִם שְׁנַ֜יִם בָּ֧אוּ אֶל־נֹ֛חַ אֶל־הַתֵּבָ֖ה זָכָ֣ר וּנְקֵבָ֑ה כַּֽאֲשֶׁ֛ר צִוָּ֥ה אֱלֹהִ֖ים אֶת־נֹֽחַ׃

[Genesis 7:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.7.9/)

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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:180` 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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