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title: Genesis 10:1 (JPS 1917) — Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, and Ja… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, and Japheth; and unto them were sons born after the flood. Who acts: these. Genesis 10:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 10:1 · JPS 1917

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Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, and Japheth; and unto them were sons born after the flood.

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**Who acts:** these · **What happens:** be, bear · **To what, where:** generations, sons

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This is Genesis 10:1 · 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 (these), 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:247
# text = Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, and Japheth; and unto them were sons born after the flood.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	generations	generation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Noah	Noah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Shem	Shem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	Ham	Ham	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	Japheth	Japheth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
24	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
25	after	after	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	flood	flood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 a** | present | these | the generations and sons |  |  | now | of the sons of Noah | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | these *not said here* | sons |  |  |  | unto Shem | tree rules |
| 3 | **bear** | participle |  | sons *not said here* |  |  | after the flood |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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וְאֵ֙לֶּה֙ תּוֹלְדֹ֣ת בְּנֵי־נֹ֔חַ שֵׁ֖ם חָ֣ם וָיָ֑פֶת וַיִּוָּלְד֥וּ לָהֶ֛ם בָּנִ֖ים אַחַ֥ר הַמַּבּֽוּל׃

[Genesis 10:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.10.1/)

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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:247` 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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