--- title: Genesis 7:16 (JPS 1917) — And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God… · tree and pragmatics description: And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him; and the LORD shut him in. Who acts: sons, God, LORD. 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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 (sons, God, LORD), 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:187 # text = And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him; and the LORD shut him in. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 3 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 4 nsubj _ _ 4 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 5 in in ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 7 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 male male ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 advmod _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 female female ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 14 det _ _ 14 flesh flesh NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 as as SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 17 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 commanded command VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 19 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 shut shut VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 25 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 in in ADP RP _ 24 compound:prt _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go in** | past | | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **go** | past | sons *= son* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **command** | past | God | Noah | | | | | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 4 | **shut in** | past | the LORD | Noah | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient | 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} וְהַבָּאִ֗ים זָכָ֨ר וּנְקֵבָ֤ה מִכָּל־בָּשָׂר֙ בָּ֔אוּ כַּֽאֲשֶׁ֛ר צִוָּ֥ה אֹת֖וֹ אֱלֹהִ֑ים וַיִּסְגֹּ֥ר יְהוָ֖ה בַּֽעֲדֽוֹ׃ [Genesis 7:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.7.16/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:187` 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 7:15 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.186/) - next →: [Genesis 7:17 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.188/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 7:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.7.16/)