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title: Genesis 25:3 (JPS 1917) — And Jokshan begot Sheba, and Dedan. · tree and pragmatics
description: And Jokshan begot Sheba, and Dedan. Who acts: Jokshan. Genesis 25:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 25:3 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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And Jokshan begot Sheba, and Dedan.

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**Who acts:** Jokshan · **What happens:** beget · **To what, where:** Sheba

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This is Genesis 25:3 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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 (Jokshan), 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:697
# text = And Jokshan begot Sheba, and Dedan.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Jokshan	Jokshan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	begot	beget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Sheba	Sheba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	Dedan	Dedan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
8	.	.	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 | **beget** | past | Jokshan | Sheba |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheba=Patient |

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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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וְיָקְשָׁ֣ן יָלַ֔ד אֶת־שְׁבָ֖א וְאֶת־דְּדָ֑ן וּבְנֵ֣י דְדָ֔ן הָי֛וּ אַשּׁוּרִ֥ם וּלְטוּשִׁ֖ים וּלְאֻמִּֽים׃

[Genesis 25:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.25.3/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **And Jokshan begot Sheba, and Dedan.**
2. [And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, and Letushim, and Leummim.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.698/)

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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:697` 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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