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title: Genesis 23:1 (JPS 1917) — And the life of Sarah was a hundred and seven and twenty years; thes… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the life of Sarah was a hundred and seven and twenty years; these were the years of the life of Sarah. Who acts: life, these. Genesis 23:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 23:1 · JPS 1917

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And the life of Sarah was a hundred and seven and twenty years; these were the years of the life of Sarah.

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**Who acts:** life, these · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** hundred years, years

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This is Genesis 23:1 · 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 (life, these), 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:601
# text = And the life of Sarah was a hundred and seven and twenty years; these were the years of the life of Sarah.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Sarah	Sarah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	conj	_	_
13	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
15	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	18	nsubj	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	parataxis	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Sarah	Sarah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | the life of Sarah | hundred years |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | these | the years |  |  |  | of the life of Sarah | 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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וַיִּהְיוּ֙ חַיֵּ֣י שָׂרָ֔ה מֵאָ֥ה שָׁנָ֛ה וְעֶשְׂרִ֥ים שָׁנָ֖ה וְשֶׁ֣בַע שָׁנִ֑ים שְׁנֵ֖י חַיֵּ֥י שָׂרָֽה׃

[Genesis 23:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.23.1/)

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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:601` 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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