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title: Genesis 13:6 (JPS 1917) — And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell togeth… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together; for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together. Who acts: land, flocks, substance. Genesis 13:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 13:6 · JPS 1917

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And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together; for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together.

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**Who acts:** land, flocks, substance · **What happens:** not be, bear, dwell, be, not dwell · **To what, where:** flocks

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This is Genesis 13:6 · 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 (land, flocks, substance), 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:339
# text = And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together; for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	dwell	dwell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
15	together	together	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
17	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	substance	substance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	advcl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	28	mark	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	fixed	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	dwell	dwell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
29	together	together	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **not** **is** | past | the land |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **bear** | to-infinitive | the land *not said here* | flocks *= flock* |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 3 | **dwell** | might | flocks *= flock* |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | flocks's substance |  |  |  |  | great *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **dwell** | could | flocks *= flock* |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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וְלֹא־נָשָׂ֥א אֹתָ֛ם הָאָ֖רֶץ לָשֶׁ֣בֶת יַחְדָּ֑ו כִּֽי־הָיָ֤ה רְכוּשָׁם֙ רָ֔ב וְלֹ֥א יָֽכְל֖וּ לָשֶׁ֥בֶת יַחְדָּֽו׃

[Genesis 13:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.13.6/)

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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:339` 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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