--- title: Genesis 4:5 (JPS 1917) — And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. · tree and pragmatics description: And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. Who acts: Cain, countenance. Genesis 4:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.93/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Torah](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/) / [Genesis](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/) / [chapter 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/4/) / [4:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.4.5/) / JPS 2 # Genesis 4:5 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. **Who acts:** Cain, countenance · **What happens:** be, fall This is Genesis 4:5 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 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 (Cain, countenance), 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:93 # text = And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 2 Cain Cain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 very very ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 wroth wroth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 8 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 countenance countenance NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 11 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | Cain | | | | | wroth *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **fall** | past | Cain's countenance | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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} וְאֶל־קַ֥יִן וְאֶל־מִנְחָת֖וֹ לֹ֣א שָׁעָ֑ה וַיִּ֤חַר לְקַ֙יִן֙ מְאֹ֔ד וַֽיִּפְּל֖וּ פָּנָֽיו׃ [Genesis 4:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.4.5/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. [but unto Cain and to his offering He had not respect.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.92/) 2. **And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.** **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:93` 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. - ← previous: [Genesis 4:5 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.92/) - next →: [Genesis 4:6 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.94/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 4:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.4.5/)