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title: Genesis 8:22 (JPS 1917) — While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat,… · tree and pragmatics
description: While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.' Who acts: earth, seedtime. Genesis 8:22 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 8:22 · JPS 1917

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While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.'

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**Who acts:** earth, seedtime · **What happens:** remain, not cease

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This is Genesis 8:22 · 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 (earth, seedtime), 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:217
# text = While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.'
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	remaineth	remain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	seedtime	seedtime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	harvest	harvest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	cold	cold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	cease	cease	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
28	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | present | the earth |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **cease** | shall | seedtime and harvest and cold and heat and summer and winter and day and night |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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עֹ֖ד כָּל־יְמֵ֣י הָאָ֑רֶץ זֶ֡רַע וְ֠קָצִיר וְקֹ֨ר וָחֹ֜ם וְקַ֧יִץ וָחֹ֛רֶף וְי֥וֹם וָלַ֖יְלָה לֹ֥א יִשְׁבֹּֽתוּ׃

[Genesis 8:22: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.8.22/)

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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:217` 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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