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title: Genesis 10:21 (JPS 1917) — And unto Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, the elder bro… · tree and pragmatics
description: And unto Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, the elder brother of Japheth, to him also were children born. Genesis 10:21 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 10:21 · JPS 1917

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And unto Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, the elder brother of Japheth, to him also were children born.

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**What happens:** be, bear · **To what, where:** children, Japheth

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This is Genesis 10:21 · 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: 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:267
# text = And unto Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, the elder brother of Japheth, to him also were children born.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
2	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Shem	Shem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	10	det:predet	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Eber	Eber	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	elder	elder	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Japheth	Japheth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	_
22	also	also	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
25	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	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** | past |  | children | Japheth |  |  | unto Shem | tree rules |
| 2 | **bear** | participle |  | children *not said here* |  |  |  |  | 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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וּלְשֵׁ֥ם יֻלַּ֖ד גַּם־ה֑וּא אֲבִי֙ כָּל־בְּנֵי־עֵ֔בֶר אֲחִ֖י יֶ֥פֶת הַגָּדֽוֹל׃

[Genesis 10:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.10.21/)

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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:267` 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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