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title: Genesis 14:18 (JPS 1917) — And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine; and he w… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine; and he was priest of God the Most High. Who acts: Melchizedek king, king. Genesis 14:18 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 14:18 · JPS 1917

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And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine; and he was priest of God the Most High.

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**Who acts:** Melchizedek king, king · **What happens:** bring, be · **To what, where:** bread, priest

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This is Genesis 14:18 · 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 (Melchizedek king, king), 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:370
# text = And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine; and he was priest of God the Most High.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	Melchizedek	Melchizedek	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Salem	Salem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	20	advmod	_	_
20	High	High	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
21	.	.	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 | **bring** | past | Melchizedek king of Salem | bread and wine |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent bread=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past | king | priest |  |  |  | of God | 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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וּמַלְכִּי־צֶ֙דֶק֙מַלְכִּי־צֶ֙דֶק֙ מֶ֣לֶךְ שָׁלֵ֔ם הוֹצִ֖יא לֶ֣חֶם וָיָ֑יִן וְה֥וּא כֹהֵ֖ן לְאֵ֥ל עֶלְיֽוֹן׃

[Genesis 14:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.14.18/)

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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:370` 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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