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title: Genesis 9:12 (JPS 1917) — And God said: 'This is the token of the covenant which I make betwee… · tree and pragmatics
description: And God said: 'This is the token of the covenant which I make between Me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: Who acts: God, This, I, living creature. Genesis 9:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 9:12 · JPS 1917

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And God said: 'This is the token of the covenant which I make between Me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:

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**Who acts:** God, This, I, living creature · **What happens:** say, be, make · **To what, where:** token, covenant · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Genesis 9:12 · 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 (God, This, I, living creature), 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:229
# text = And God said: 'This is the token of the covenant which I make between Me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
5	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
6	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	token	token	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	covenant	covenant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	obj	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	between	between	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	conj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	det	_	_
22	living	live	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	acl:relcl	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	perpetual	perpetual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	generations	generation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
32	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | God |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | This | the token |  |  |  | of the covenant | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | present | I | the covenant |  |  | for perpetual generations | between Me | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent which=Product for generation=Asset |
| 4 | **is** | present | every living creature |  |  |  |  | with you | tree rules |

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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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וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֱלֹהִ֗ים זֹ֤את אֽוֹת־הַבְּרִית֙ אֲשֶׁר־אֲנִ֣י נֹתֵ֗ן בֵּינִי֙ וּבֵ֣ינֵיכֶ֔ם וּבֵ֛ין כָּל־נֶ֥פֶשׁ חַיָּ֖ה אֲשֶׁ֣ר אִתְּכֶ֑ם לְדֹרֹ֖ת עוֹלָֽם׃

[Genesis 9:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.9.12/)

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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:229` 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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