--- title: Genesis 37:33 — And he knew it, and said: 'It is my son's coat; an evil beast hath d… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: And he knew it, and said: 'It is my son's coat; an evil beast hath devoured him; Joseph is without doubt torn in pieces.' Who acts: Reuben, coat, evil beast. Genesis 37:33 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Onkelos, JPS 1917 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/GEN.37.33/) [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 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/37/) / 37:33 # Genesis 37:33 בְּרֵאשִׁית **Who acts:** Reuben, coat, evil beast · **What happens:** know, say, be, devour, tear · **To what, where:** coat, Reuben, Joseph, pieces · **Speech:** someone speaks in this verse This is Genesis 37:33 from Mova's open Bible corpus, the Tanakh in three languages (The Torah). 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 — Reuben, coat, evil beast — and what happens in the verse to coat, Reuben, Joseph, pieces, 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. וַיַּכִּירָ֤הּ וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ כְּתֹ֣נֶת בְּנִ֔י חַיָּ֥ה רָעָ֖ה אֲכָלָ֑תְהוּ טָרֹ֥ף טֹרַ֖ף יוֹסֵֽף׃ [And he knew it, and said: 'It is my son's coat; an evil beast hath devoured him; Joseph is without doubt torn in pieces.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1213/) ## 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:1116 # text = וַיַּכִּירָ֤הּ וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ כְּתֹ֣נֶת בְּנִ֔י חַיָּ֥ה רָעָ֖ה אֲכָלָ֑תְהוּ טָרֹ֥ף טֹרַ֖ף יוֹסֵֽף׃ # verse = GEN.37.33 1-3 וַיַּכִּירָ֤הּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 2 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_37:33!1|MId=o010370330011|Strong=2050b 2 יַּכִּיר נָכַר VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=HIPHIL|Number=Sing|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=he|Ref=GEN_37:33!1|MId=o010370330012|Strong=5234|Frame=AA:010370320071;A0:010370330013;|Type=wayyiqtol 3 ָ֤הּ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ Gloss=recognized.it|Ref=GEN_37:33!1|MId=o010370330013|Strong=1886d|Type=pronominal 4-5 וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 4 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 5 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_37:33!2|MId=o010370330021|Strong=2050b 5 יֹּ֙אמֶר֙ אָמַר VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 2 conj _ Gloss=he.said|Ref=GEN_37:33!2|MId=o010370330022|Strong=0559|Frame=A0:010370320071;|Type=wayyiqtol 6 כְּתֹ֣נֶת כֻּתֹּנֶת NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 5 ccomp _ Gloss=[it.is].the.long.garment|Ref=GEN_37:33!3|MId=o010370330031|Strong=3801 7-8 בְּנִ֔י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 7 בְּנ בֵּן NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 6 compound:smixut _ Gloss=my.son|Ref=GEN_37:33!4|MId=o010370330041|Strong=1121 8 ִ֔י הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ Gloss=my|Ref=GEN_37:33!4|MId=o010370330042|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal 9 חַיָּ֥ה חַיָּה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ Gloss=an.animal|Ref=GEN_37:33!5|MId=o010370330051|Strong=2416c 10 רָעָ֖ה רַע ADJ _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 9 amod _ Gloss=wild|Ref=GEN_37:33!6|MId=o010370330061|Strong=7451b|Type=adjective 11-12 אֲכָלָ֑תְהוּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 11 אֲכָלָ֑ת אָכַל VERB _ Gender=Fem|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 6 parataxis _ Gloss=it|Ref=GEN_37:33!7|MId=o010370330071|Strong=0398|Frame=A0:010370330051;A1:010370330072;|Type=qatal 12 ְהוּ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ Gloss=has.eaten.him|Ref=GEN_37:33!7|MId=o010370330072|Strong=1930a|Type=pronominal 13 טָרֹ֥ף טָרַף VERB _ HebBinyan=QAL 14 obl:npmod _ Gloss=surely.(tear)|Ref=GEN_37:33!8|MId=o010370330081|Strong=2963|Type=infinitive_absolute 14 טֹרַ֖ף טָרַף VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=PUAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 6 parataxis _ Gloss=he.has.been.torn.to.pieces|Ref=GEN_37:33!9|MId=o010370330091|Strong=2963|Frame=A1:010370330101;|Type=qatal 15 יוֹסֵֽף יוֹסֵף PROPN _ _ 14 nsubj _ Gloss=Joseph|Ref=GEN_37:33!10|MId=o010370330101|Strong=3130|SpaceAfter=No 16 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 15 punct _ Ref=GEN_37:33!10 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - speech: a frame and its quote - negation: no - the frame alone: decl · narrate · none | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | יַּכִּיר *he* | wayyiqtol · hiphil | ָהּ *recognized it* | | | | | יֹּאמֶר *he said* | wayyiqtol · qal | | | | | | אֲכָלָת *it* | qatal · qal | חַיָּה *an animal* | ְהוּ *has eaten him* | | | | טֹרַף *he has been torn to pieces* | qatal · pual | | יוֹסֵֽף *Joseph* | | | 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} וְאִשְׁתְּמוֹדְעַהּ וַאֲמַר כִּתּוּנָא דִבְרִי חַיְתָא בִישְׁתָא אֲכָלְתֵּהּ מִקְטַל קְטִיל יוֹסֵף 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 he knew it, and said: 'It is my son's coat; an evil beast hath devoured him; Joseph is without doubt torn in pieces.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1213/) **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). Hebrew sentence `wlc:GEN:1116`. - ← previous: [Genesis 37:32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.37.32/) - next →: [Genesis 37:34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.37.34/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/37/)