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title: Genesis 7:21 (JPS 1917) — And all flesh perished that moved upon the earth, both fowl, and cat… · tree and pragmatics
description: And all flesh perished that moved upon the earth, both fowl, and cattle, and beast, and every swarming thing that swarmeth upon the earth, and every man; Who acts: flesh, swarming thing. Genesis 7:21 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 7:21 · JPS 1917

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And all flesh perished that moved upon the earth, both fowl, and cattle, and beast, and every swarming thing that swarmeth upon the earth, and every man;

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**Who acts:** flesh, swarming thing · **What happens:** perish, move, swarming, swarm · **To what, where:** earth

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This is Genesis 7:21 · 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 (flesh, swarming thing), 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:192
# text = And all flesh perished that moved upon the earth, both fowl, and cattle, and beast, and every swarming thing that swarmeth upon the earth, and every man;
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	flesh	flesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	perished	perish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc:preconj	_	_
12	fowl	fowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	det	_	_
22	swarming	swarming	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	amod	_	_
23	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	swarmeth	swarm	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
26	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	32	det	_	_
32	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
33	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **perish** | past | all flesh |  |  |  |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **move** | past | all flesh |  |  | the earth both fowl and cattle and beast and every swarming thing and every man |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme upon earth=Trajectory |
| 3 | **swarming** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **swarm** | present | every swarming thing |  |  | the earth |  |  | vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon earth=Location |

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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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וַיִּגְוַ֞ע כָּל־בָּשָׂ֣ר ׀ הָרֹמֵ֣שׂ עַל־הָאָ֗רֶץ בָּע֤וֹף וּבַבְּהֵמָה֙ וּבַ֣חַיָּ֔ה וּבְכָל־הַשֶּׁ֖רֶץ הַשֹּׁרֵ֣ץ עַל־הָאָ֑רֶץ וְכֹ֖ל הָאָדָֽם׃

[Genesis 7:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.7.21/)

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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:192` 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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