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title: Genesis 9:5 (JPS 1917) — And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of e… · tree and pragmatics
description: And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it; and at the hand of man, even at the hand of every man's brother, will I require the life of man. Who acts: I. Genesis 9:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 9:5 · JPS 1917

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And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it; and at the hand of man, even at the hand of every man's brother, will I require the life of man.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** require · **To what, where:** blood, hand, life

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This is Genesis 9:5 · 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 (I), 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:222
# text = And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it; and at the hand of man, even at the hand of every man's brother, will I require the life of man.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	lives	life	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	require	require	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	require	require	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	parataxis	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	42	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	even	even	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
31	at	at	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
35	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	36	det	_	_
36	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod:poss	_	_
37	's	's	PART	POS	_	36	case	_	_
38	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
40	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
41	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
42	require	require	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **require** | future | I | your blood of your lives |  |  |  | surely *property* | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme blood=Precondition |
| 2 | **require** | future | I | blood |  | the hand of every beast |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Precondition |
| 3 | **require** | future | I | the life of man |  | the hand of man |  | at the hand of every man's brother | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme life=Precondition |

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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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וְאַ֨ךְ אֶת־דִּמְכֶ֤ם לְנַפְשֹֽׁתֵיכֶם֙ אֶדְרֹ֔שׁ מִיַּ֥ד כָּל־חַיָּ֖ה אֶדְרְשֶׁ֑נּוּ וּמִיַּ֣ד הָֽאָדָ֗ם מִיַּד֙ אִ֣ישׁ אָחִ֔יו אֶדְרֹ֖שׁ אֶת־נֶ֥פֶשׁ הָֽאָדָֽם׃

[Genesis 9:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.9.5/)

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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:222` 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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