--- title: Genesis 9:2 (JPS 1917) — And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast o… · tree and pragmatics description: And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, and upon all wherewith the ground teemeth, and upon all the fishes of the sea: into your hand are they delivered. Who acts: fear, ground. 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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 (fear, ground), 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:219 # text = And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, and upon all wherewith the ground teemeth, and upon all the fishes of the sea: into your hand are they delivered. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 fear fear NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nmod _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 dread dread NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 nmod _ _ 11 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 12 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 15 cop _ _ 13 upon upon ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 15 det _ _ 15 beast beast NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 upon upon ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 23 det _ _ 23 fowl fowl NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 upon upon ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 all all PRON DT PronType=Tot 23 conj _ _ 31 wherewith wherewith ADV WRB PronType=Rel 34 advmod _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 34 teemeth teem VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 acl:relcl _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 37 upon upon ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 38 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 40 det:predet _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 fishes fish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 conj _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod _ _ 44 : : PUNCT : _ 50 punct _ _ 45 into into ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 47 nmod:poss _ _ 47 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 obl _ _ 48 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 50 aux:pass _ _ 49 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 50 nsubj:pass _ _ 50 delivered deliver VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 parataxis _ _ 51 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: pos - teacher: changed act=assert, voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | shall | the fear of you and the dread of you | | | | | upon every beast and every fowl of the air; of the earth | tree rules | | 2 | **teem** | present | the ground | | | | | wherewith *property* | vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **deliver** | present · passive | | fear | | your hand | | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 4 | **fear** | | | you | | | | | nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient | | 5 | **dread** | | | you | | | | | nom dread «feeling transitive»: of=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} וּמוֹרַאֲכֶ֤ם וְחִתְּכֶם֙ יִֽהְיֶ֔ה עַ֚ל כָּל־חַיַּ֣ת הָאָ֔רֶץ וְעַ֖ל כָּל־ע֣וֹף הַשָּׁמָ֑יִם בְּכֹל֩ אֲשֶׁ֨ר תִּרְמֹ֧שׂ הָֽאֲדָמָ֛ה וּֽבְכָל־דְּגֵ֥י הַיָּ֖ם בְּיֶדְכֶ֥ם נִתָּֽנוּ׃ [Genesis 9:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.9.2/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:219` 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 9:1 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.218/) - next →: [Genesis 9:3 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.220/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 9:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.9.2/)