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title: Genesis 10:30 (JPS 1917) — And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest toward Sephar, unto… · tree and pragmatics
description: And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest toward Sephar, unto the mountain of the east. Who acts: dwelling, thou. Genesis 10:30 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 10:30 · JPS 1917

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And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest toward Sephar, unto the mountain of the east.

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**Who acts:** dwelling, thou · **What happens:** be, go · **To what, where:** Mesha, Sephar

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This is Genesis 10:30 · 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 (dwelling, thou), 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:276
# text = And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest toward Sephar, unto the mountain of the east.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Mesha	Mesha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	nsubj	_	_
10	goest	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
11	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Sephar	Sephar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | sons's dwelling |  |  | Mesha |  | unto the mountain of the east | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | present | thou |  |  | Sephar |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme toward sephar=Initial\_Location |

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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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וַֽיְהִ֥י מוֹשָׁבָ֖ם מִמֵּשָׁ֑א בֹּאֲכָ֥ה סְפָ֖רָה הַ֥ר הַקֶּֽדֶם׃

[Genesis 10:30: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.10.30/)

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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:276` 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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