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title: Genesis 14:2 (JPS 1917) — that they made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha king of… · tree and pragmatics
description: that they made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela — the same is Zoar. Who acts: they, same. Genesis 14:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 14:2 · JPS 1917

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that they made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela — the same is Zoar.

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**Who acts:** they, same · **What happens:** make, be · **To what, where:** war, Zoar

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This is Genesis 14:2 · 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 (they, same), 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:354
# text = that they made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela — the same is Zoar.
1	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	Bera	Bera	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
7	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Sodom	Sodom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	Birsha	Birsha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
14	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Gomorrah	Gomorrah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	Shinab	Shinab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
19	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Admah	Admah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	Shemeber	Shemeber	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
25	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Zeboiim	Zeboiim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Bela	Bela	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
34	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	nsubj	_	_
37	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
38	Zoar	Zoar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **make** | past | they | war |  |  |  | with king  Bera of Sodom and king  Birsha of Gomorrah and king of Admah and king  Shemeber of Zeboiim and the king of Bela | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset war=Product |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the same | Zoar |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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עָשׂ֣וּ מִלְחָמָ֗ה אֶת־בֶּ֙רַע֙ מֶ֣לֶךְ סְדֹ֔ם וְאֶת־בִּרְשַׁ֖ע מֶ֣לֶךְ עֲמֹרָ֑ה שִׁנְאָ֣ב ׀ מֶ֣לֶךְ אַדְמָ֗ה וְשֶׁמְאֵ֙בֶר֙ מֶ֣לֶךְ צְבוֹיִ֔יםוּמֶ֥לֶךְ בֶּ֖לַע הִיא־צֹֽעַר׃

[Genesis 14:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.14.2/)

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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:354` 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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