--- title: Genesis 24:15 — And it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that, behold, Rebe… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: And it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder. Who acts: water, servant, Rebekah. 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The page gives the verse in Hebrew as the Westminster Leningrad Codex has it, its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, built from MACULA Hebrew — and its pragmatics: who acts — water, servant, Rebekah — and what happens in the verse to Rebekah, Bethuel, read clause by clause by Mova's frames. Beside it stand the Aramaic of Targum Onkelos and the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, each English sentence with a tree of its own. It is one of the 50 chapters of Genesis on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between. וַֽיְהִי־ה֗וּא טֶרֶם֮ כִּלָּ֣ה לְדַבֵּר֒ וְהִנֵּ֧ה רִבְקָ֣ה יֹצֵ֗את אֲשֶׁ֤ר יֻלְּדָה֙ לִבְתוּאֵ֣ל בֶּן־מִלְכָּ֔ה אֵ֥שֶׁת נָח֖וֹר אֲחִ֣י אַבְרָהָ֑ם וְכַדָּ֖הּ עַל־שִׁכְמָֽהּ׃ [And it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.635/) ## The tree {#tree} Right to left, as the Hebrew is read; a prefix or suffix is a word of its own, and a line under the words joins those written as one. Under each word its part of speech and MACULA's English gloss. ```conllu rtl gloss # sent_id = wlc:GEN:606 # text = וַֽיְהִי־ה֗וּא טֶרֶם֮ כִּלָּ֣ה לְדַבֵּר֒ וְהִנֵּ֧ה רִבְקָ֣ה יֹצֵ֗את אֲשֶׁ֤ר יֻלְּדָה֙ לִבְתוּאֵ֣ל בֶּן־מִלְכָּ֔ה אֵ֥שֶׁת נָח֖וֹר אֲחִ֣י אַבְרָהָ֑ם וְכַדָּ֖הּ עַל־שִׁכְמָֽהּ׃ # verse = GEN.24.15 1-2 וַֽיְהִי־ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וַֽ וְ CCONJ _ _ 2 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_24:15!1|MId=o010240150011|Strong=2050b 2 יְהִי־ הָיָה VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=it.was|Ref=GEN_24:15!1|MId=o010240150012|Strong=1961|Type=wayyiqtol 3 ה֗וּא הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ Gloss=he|Ref=GEN_24:15!2|MId=o010240150021|Strong=1931|Type=personal 4 טֶרֶם֮ טֶרֶם ADV _ _ 5 advmod _ Gloss=not.yet|Ref=GEN_24:15!3|MId=o010240150031|Strong=2962 5 כִּלָּ֣ה כָּלָה VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=PIEL|Number=Sing|Person=3 2 parataxis _ Gloss=he.had.finished|Ref=GEN_24:15!4|MId=o010240150041|Strong=3615|Frame=A0:010240150021;|Type=qatal 6-7 לְדַבֵּר֒ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 6 לְ לְ ADP _ _ 7 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=GEN_24:15!5|MId=o010240150051|Strong=3807a 7 דַבֵּר֒ דָבַר VERB _ HebBinyan=PIEL 5 xcomp _ Gloss=speak|Ref=GEN_24:15!5|MId=o010240150052|Strong=1696|Frame=A0:010240100022;|Type=infinitive_construct 8-9 וְהִנֵּ֧ה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 8 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 11 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_24:15!6|MId=o010240150061|Strong=2050b 9 הִנֵּ֧ה הִנֵּה INTJ _ _ 11 discourse _ Gloss=there!|Ref=GEN_24:15!6|MId=o010240150062|Strong=2009|Type=demonstrative 10 רִבְקָ֣ה רִבְקָה PROPN _ _ 11 nsubj _ Gloss=Rebekah|Ref=GEN_24:15!7|MId=o010240150071|Strong=7259 11 יֹצֵ֗את יָצָא VERB _ Gender=Fem|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing 2 conj _ Gloss=[was].coming.out|Ref=GEN_24:15!8|MId=o010240150081|Strong=3318|Frame=A0:010240150071;|Type=participle_active 12 אֲשֶׁ֤ר אֲשֶׁר SCONJ _ _ 13 mark _ Gloss=who|Ref=GEN_24:15!9|MId=o010240150091|Strong=0834|Type=relative 13 יֻלְּדָה֙ יָלַד VERB _ Gender=Fem|HebBinyan=PUAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 10 acl:relcl _ Gloss=she.had.been.born|Ref=GEN_24:15!10|MId=o010240150101|Strong=3205|Frame=A1:010240150071;|Type=qatal 14-15 לִבְתוּאֵ֣ל _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 14 לִ לְ ADP _ _ 15 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=GEN_24:15!11|MId=o010240150111|Strong=3807a 15 בְתוּאֵ֣ל בְּתוּאֵל PROPN _ _ 13 obl _ Gloss=Bethuel|Ref=GEN_24:15!11|MId=o010240150112|Strong=1328 16 בֶּן־ בֵּן NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 15 appos _ Gloss=the.son|Ref=GEN_24:15!12|MId=o010240150121|Strong=1121|SpaceAfter=No 17 מִלְכָּ֔ה מִלְכָּה PROPN _ _ 16 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.Milcah|Ref=GEN_24:15!13|MId=o010240150131|Strong=4435 18 אֵ֥שֶׁת אִשָּׁה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 17 appos _ Gloss=the.wife|Ref=GEN_24:15!14|MId=o010240150141|Strong=0802 19 נָח֖וֹר נָחוֹר PROPN _ _ 18 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.Nahor|Ref=GEN_24:15!15|MId=o010240150151|Strong=5152 20 אֲחִ֣י אָח NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 19 appos _ Gloss=the.brother|Ref=GEN_24:15!16|MId=o010240150161|Strong=0251 21 אַבְרָהָ֑ם אַבְרָהָם PROPN _ _ 20 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.Abraham|Ref=GEN_24:15!17|MId=o010240150171|Strong=0085 22-24 וְכַדָּ֖הּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 22 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 26 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_24:15!18|MId=o010240150181|Strong=2050b 23 כַדּ כַּד NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ Gloss=jar|Ref=GEN_24:15!18|MId=o010240150182|Strong=3537 24 ָ֖הּ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ Gloss=her|Ref=GEN_24:15!18|MId=o010240150183|Strong=1886d|Type=pronominal 25 עַל־ עַל ADP _ _ 26 case _ Gloss=[was].on|Ref=GEN_24:15!19|MId=o010240150191|Strong=5921|SpaceAfter=No 26-27 שִׁכְמָֽהּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 26 שִׁכְמ שְׁכֶם NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 2 conj _ Gloss=shoulder|Ref=GEN_24:15!20|MId=o010240150201|Strong=7926 27 ָֽהּ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ Gloss=her|Ref=GEN_24:15!20|MId=o010240150202|Strong=1886d|Type=pronominal 28 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 27 punct _ Ref=GEN_24:15!20 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - speech: narration - negation: no | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | כִּלָּה *he had finished* | qatal · piel | הוּא *he* | | | | | דַבֵּר *speak* | infinitive construct · piel | | | | | | יֹצֵאת *\[was\] coming out* | participle active · qal | רִבְקָה *Rebekah* | | | | | יֻלְּדָה *she had been born* | qatal · pual | | רִבְקָה *Rebekah* | | | MACULA's semantic frames: for each verb the head word of each participant. A0 is the one who acts, A1 what the act is done to or is about, A2 a further participant; AA, with a causative verb, the one who makes it happen. ## Targum Onkelos {#onkelos} וַהֲוָה הוּא עַד לָא שֵׁיצֵי לְמַלָּלָא וְהָא רִבְקָה נְפָקַת דְּאִתְיְלִידַת לִבְתוּאֵל בַּר מִלְכָּה אִתַּת נָחוֹר אֲחוּהִי דְאַבְרָהָם וְקוּלְתַהּ עַל כַּתְפַּהּ The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet. ## English, JPS 1917 {#english} Each sentence on its own page, with its tree and pragmatics. A sentence that runs on into the next verse is listed under the verse it begins in. 1. [And it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.635/) **Hebrew text:** Westminster Leningrad Codex, public domain. **Tree, glosses and frames:** MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets, available at [github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew](https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew/), [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); converted to Universal Dependencies by Mova (words in text order, a prefix its own word). **Speech act:** Mova's rules on the MACULA words (`macula prag`). **Targum:** Onkelos (Torat Emet), Jonathan and the Writings (Mikraot Gedolot), from Sefaria, public domain. **English:** JPS 1917, public domain; trees and speech acts by Mova's cycle, frames by Mova's reader (Elamur Cosmic License). 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