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title: Genesis 9:6 (JPS 1917) — Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed; for in t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God made He man. Who acts: Whoso, man. Genesis 9:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 9:6 · JPS 1917

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Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God made He man.

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**Who acts:** Whoso, man · **What happens:** shed, make, image · **To what, where:** blood, man, image, God

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This is Genesis 9:6 · 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 (Whoso, man), 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:223
# text = Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God made He man.
1	Whoso	whoso	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sheddeth	shed	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
9	shall	shall	AUX	MD	_	13	aux	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	shed	shed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
15	for	for	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	image	image	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
22	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
23	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **shed** | present | Whoso | man's blood |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location blood=Source |
| 2 | **shed** | shall · passive | man | man's blood |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Source |
| 3 | **make** | past | man | man |  | the image of God |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Product |
| 4 | **image** |  |  | God |  |  |  |  | nom image «cognition transitive»: of=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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שֹׁפֵךְ֙ דַּ֣ם הָֽאָדָ֔ם בָּֽאָדָ֖ם דָּמ֣וֹ יִשָּׁפֵ֑ךְ כִּ֚י בְּצֶ֣לֶם אֱלֹהִ֔ים עָשָׂ֖ה אֶת־הָאָדָֽם׃

[Genesis 9:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.9.6/)

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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:223` 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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