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title: Genesis 9:4 (JPS 1917) — Only flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall… · tree and pragmatics
description: Only flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat. Who acts: flesh, ye. Genesis 9:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 9:4 · JPS 1917

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Only flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.

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**Who acts:** flesh, ye · **What happens:** be, not eat · **To what, where:** blood, flesh

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This is Genesis 9:4 · 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, ye), 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:221
# text = Only flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	flesh	flesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	acl:relcl	_	_
12	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
14	shall	shall	AUX	MD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
15	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	17	nsubj	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: other
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=other, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | flesh | the blood |  |  |  | thereof *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **eat** | shall | ye | flesh |  |  |  | with the life | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flesh=Patient |

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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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אַךְ־בָּשָׂ֕ר בְּנַפְשׁ֥וֹ דָמ֖וֹ לֹ֥א תֹאכֵֽלוּ׃

[Genesis 9:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.9.4/)

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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:221` 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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