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title: Genesis 9:16 (JPS 1917) — And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I m… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.' Who acts: bow, I, flesh. Genesis 9:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 9:16 · JPS 1917

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And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.'

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**Who acts:** bow, I, flesh · **What happens:** be, look, remember · **To what, where:** cloud, everlasting covenant

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This is Genesis 9:16 · 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 (bow, I, flesh), 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:233
# text = And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	shall	shall	AUX	MD	_	8	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	_	13	aux	_	_
13	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
14	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	may	may	AUX	MD	_	20	aux	_	_
20	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	everlasting	everlasting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	covenant	covenant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	between	between	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	29	det	_	_
28	living	living	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	32	det	_	_
32	flesh	flesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	37	nsubj	_	_
34	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
35	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	acl:relcl	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
39	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: promise
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | shall | the bow |  |  | the cloud |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **look** | future | I |  |  |  |  | upon bow | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon it=Theme |
| 3 | **remember** | may | I | the everlasting covenant |  |  |  | between God and every living creature of all flesh | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent covenant=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present | all flesh |  |  |  |  | upon the earth | 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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וְהָיְתָ֥ה הַקֶּ֖שֶׁת בֶּֽעָנָ֑ן וּרְאִיתִ֗יהָ לִזְכֹּר֙ בְּרִ֣ית עוֹלָ֔ם בֵּ֣ין אֱלֹהִ֔ים וּבֵין֙ כָּל־נֶ֣פֶשׁ חַיָּ֔ה בְּכָל־בָּשָׂ֖ר אֲשֶׁ֥ר עַל־הָאָֽרֶץ׃

[Genesis 9:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.9.16/)

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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:233` 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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