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title: Genesis 49:13 — Zebulun shall dwell at the shore of the sea, and he shall be a shore… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics
description: Zebulun shall dwell at the shore of the sea, and he shall be a shore for ships, and his flank shall be upon Zidon. Who acts: Zebulun, flank. Genesis 49:13 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Onkelos, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 49:13 בְּרֵאשִׁית

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**Who acts:** Zebulun, flank · **What happens:** dwell, be · **To what, where:** shore

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This is Genesis 49:13 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 — Zebulun, flank — and what happens in the verse to shore, 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.

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זְבוּלֻ֕ן לְח֥וֹף יַמִּ֖ים יִשְׁכֹּ֑ן וְהוּא֙ לְח֣וֹף אֳנִיּ֔וֹת וְיַרְכָת֖וֹ עַל־צִידֹֽן׃ס

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[Zebulun shall dwell at the shore of the sea, and he shall be a shore for ships, and his flank shall be upon Zidon.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1612/)

## The tree {#tree}

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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:1486
# text = זְבוּלֻ֕ן לְח֥וֹף יַמִּ֖ים יִשְׁכֹּ֑ן וְהוּא֙ לְח֣וֹף אֳנִיּ֔וֹת וְיַרְכָת֖וֹ עַל־צִידֹֽן׃ס
# verse = GEN.49.13
1	זְבוּלֻ֕ן	זְבוּלֻן	PROPN	_	_	5	nsubj	_	Gloss=Zebulun|Ref=GEN_49:13!1|MId=o010490130011|Strong=2074
2-3	לְח֥וֹף	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
2	לְ	לְ	ADP	_	_	3	case	_	Gloss=to.[the]|Ref=GEN_49:13!2|MId=o010490130021|Strong=3807a
3	ח֥וֹף	חוֹף	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	5	obl	_	Gloss=coast|Ref=GEN_49:13!2|MId=o010490130022|Strong=2348
4	יַמִּ֖ים	יָם	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur	3	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=of.[the].seas|Ref=GEN_49:13!3|MId=o010490130031|Strong=3220
5	יִשְׁכֹּ֑ן	שָׁכַן	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3	0	root	_	Gloss=he.will.dwell|Ref=GEN_49:13!4|MId=o010490130041|Strong=7931|Frame=A0:010490130011;|Type=yiqtol
6-7	וְהוּא֙	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
6	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	9	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_49:13!5|MId=o010490130051|Strong=2050b
7	הוּא֙	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	Gloss=he|Ref=GEN_49:13!5|MId=o010490130052|Strong=1931|Type=personal
8-9	לְח֣וֹף	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
8	לְ	לְ	ADP	_	_	9	case	_	Gloss=[will|Ref=GEN_49:13!6|MId=o010490130061|Strong=3807a
9	ח֣וֹף	חוֹף	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	5	conj	_	Gloss=become].(into).a.harbor|Ref=GEN_49:13!6|MId=o010490130062|Strong=2348
10	אֳנִיּ֔וֹת	אֳנִיָּה	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Plur	9	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=of.ships|Ref=GEN_49:13!7|MId=o010490130071|Strong=0591
11-13	וְיַרְכָת֖וֹ	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
11	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	15	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_49:13!8|MId=o010490130081|Strong=2050b
12	יַרְכָת	יַרְכָה	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	Gloss=side|Ref=GEN_49:13!8|MId=o010490130082|Strong=3411
13	֖וֹ	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	Gloss=his|Ref=GEN_49:13!8|MId=o010490130083|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal
14	עַל־	עַל	ADP	_	_	15	case	_	Gloss=[will.be].at|Ref=GEN_49:13!9|MId=o010490130091|Strong=5921|SpaceAfter=No
15	צִידֹֽן	צִידוֹן	PROPN	_	_	5	conj	_	Gloss=Sidon|Ref=GEN_49:13!10|MId=o010490130101|Strong=6721|SpaceAfter=No
16	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	_	15	punct	_	Ref=GEN_49:13!10|SpaceAfter=No
17	ס	ס	PUNCT	_	_	15	punct	_	Ref=GEN_49:13!10
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- speech: inside a quote begun earlier
- negation: no

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| verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| יִשְׁכֹּן *he will dwell* | yiqtol · qal | זְבוּלֻן *Zebulun* |  |  |  |

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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}

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זְבוּלֻן עַל סְפַר יַמְמַיָּא יִשְׁרֵי וְהוּא יְכַבֵּשׁ מְחוֹזִין בִּסְפִינַן וְטוּב יַמָּא יֵיכוּל וּתְחוּמֵהּ יְהֵי מָטֵי עַל צִידוֹן

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The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet.

## English, JPS 1917 {#english}

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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.

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1. [Zebulun shall dwell at the shore of the sea, and he shall be a shore for ships, and his flank shall be upon Zidon.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1612/)

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**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:1486`.

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