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title: Genesis 9:26 (JPS 1917) — And he said: Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem; and let Canaan be… · tree and pragmatics
description: And he said: Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem; and let Canaan be their servant. Who acts: Japheth, Canaan. Genesis 9:26 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 9:26 · JPS 1917

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And he said: Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem; and let Canaan be their servant.

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**Who acts:** Japheth, Canaan · **What happens:** say, bless, let, be · **To what, where:** LORD, servant · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Genesis 9:26 · 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 (Japheth, Canaan), 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:243
# text = And he said: Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem; and let Canaan be their servant.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Blessed	bless	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	ccomp	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Shem	Shem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
17	Canaan	Canaan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	xcomp	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Japheth |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **bless** | infinitive · passive |  | the LORD |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive | Canaan |  |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | infinitive | Canaan *not said here* | Shem's servant |  |  |  |  | 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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וַיֹּ֕אמֶר בָּר֥וּךְ יְהֹוָ֖ה אֱלֹ֣הֵי שֵׁ֑ם וִיהִ֥י כְנַ֖עַן עֶ֥בֶד לָֽמוֹ׃

[Genesis 9:26: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.9.26/)

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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:243` 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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