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title: Genesis 9:7 (JPS 1917) — And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; swarm in the earth, and multi… · tree and pragmatics
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# Genesis 9:7 · JPS 1917

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And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; swarm in the earth, and multiply therein.'

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** be, multiply, swarm · **To what, where:** earth

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This is Genesis 9:7 · 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 (you), 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:224
# text = And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; swarm in the earth, and multiply therein.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
5	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nsubj	_	_
6	fruitful	fruitful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	multiply	multiply	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
11	swarm	swarm	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	multiply	multiply	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
18	therein	therein	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
20	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | infinitive | you |  |  |  |  | fruitful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **multiply** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **swarm** | infinitive |  |  |  | the earth |  |  | vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in earth=Location |
| 4 | **multiply** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | therein *property* | vn birth-28.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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וְאַתֶּ֖ם פְּר֣וּ וּרְב֑וּ שִׁרְצ֥וּ בָאָ֖רֶץ וּרְבוּ־בָֽהּ׃ס

[Genesis 9:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.9.7/)

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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:224` 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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