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title: Genesis 9:1 (JPS 1917) — And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them: 'Be fruitful… · tree and pragmatics
description: And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them: 'Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth. Who acts: God. Genesis 9:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 9:1 · JPS 1917

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And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them: 'Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth.

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**Who acts:** God · **What happens:** bless, say, be, multiply, replenish · **To what, where:** Noah, earth · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Genesis 9:1 · 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 (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:218
# text = And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them: 'Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	blessed	bless	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Noah	Noah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
15	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	cop	_	_
16	fruitful	fruitful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	ccomp	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	multiply	multiply	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	replenish	replenish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=request

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bless** | past | God | Noah and God's sons |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent noah=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | God *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto sons *= son* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | fruitful *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **multiply** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **replenish** | infinitive |  | the earth |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme earth=Destination |

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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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וַיְבָ֣רֶךְ אֱלֹהִ֔ים אֶת־נֹ֖חַ וְאֶת־בָּנָ֑יו וַיֹּ֧אמֶר לָהֶ֛ם פְּר֥וּ וּרְב֖וּ וּמִלְא֥וּ אֶת־הָאָֽרֶץ׃

[Genesis 9:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.9.1/)

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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:218` 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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