--- title: Genesis 10:9 (JPS 1917) — He was a mighty hunter before the LORD; wherefore it is said: 'Like… · tree and pragmatics description: He was a mighty hunter before the LORD; wherefore it is said: 'Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before the LORD.' Who acts: Nimrod. Genesis 10:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.255/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Torah](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/) / [Genesis](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/) / [chapter 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/10/) / [10:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.10.9/) / JPS 1 # Genesis 10:9 · JPS 1917 He was a mighty hunter before the LORD; wherefore it is said: 'Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before the LORD.' **Who acts:** Nimrod · **What happens:** be, say · **To what, where:** mighty hunter, hunter · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is Genesis 10:9 · 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 (Nimrod), 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:255 # text = He was a mighty hunter before the LORD; wherefore it is said: 'Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before the LORD.' 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 mighty mighty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 hunter hunter NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 before before ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 10 wherefore wherefore ADV WRB PronType=Int 13 advmod _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj:pass _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 said say VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 parataxis _ _ 14 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 15 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ _ 16 Like like ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 Nimrod Nimrod PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 mighty mighty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 hunter hunter NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 appos _ _ 21 before before ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ 25 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | Nimrod | a mighty hunter | | | before the LORD | | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · passive | | hunter | | | | like Nimrod; wherefore *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | 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} הֽוּא־הָיָ֥ה גִבֹּֽר־צַ֖יִד לִפְנֵ֣י יְהוָ֑ה עַל־כֵּן֙ יֵֽאָמַ֔ר כְּנִמְרֹ֛ד גִּבּ֥וֹר צַ֖יִד לִפְנֵ֥י יְהוָֽה׃ [Genesis 10:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.10.9/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:255` 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. - ← previous: [Genesis 10:8 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.254/) - next →: [Genesis 10:10 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.256/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 10:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.10.9/)