--- title: Genesis 32:6 (JPS 1917) — (32-6) And I have oxen, and asses and flocks, and men-servants and m… · tree and pragmatics description: (32-6) And I have oxen, and asses and flocks, and men-servants and maid-servants; and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favour in thy sight.' Who acts: I, thy. 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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 (I, thy), 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:1004 # text = (32-6) And I have oxen, and asses and flocks, and men-servants and maid-servants; and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favour in thy sight.' 1 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 2 punct _ _ 2 32-6 32-6 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 dep _ _ 3 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 2 punct _ _ 4 And and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 5 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 oxen ox NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 asses ass NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 flocks flock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 compound _ _ 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ _ 17 servants servant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 maid maid NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 20 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 19 punct _ _ 21 servants servant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 sent send VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 6 conj _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 advcl _ _ 29 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 lord lord NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 that that SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 33 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 advcl _ _ 36 favour favour NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ 41 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: other - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | I | oxen and asses and flocks and men servants and maid servants | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ox=Patient | | 2 | **send** | present · perfect | I | | | | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | | my lord | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lord=Recipient | | 4 | **find** | may | I | favour | | thy sight | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent favour=Topic | | 5 | **sight** | | thy | | | | | | nom sight «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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} וַֽיְהִי־לִי֙ שׁ֣וֹר וַחֲמ֔וֹר צֹ֖אן וְעֶ֣בֶד וְשִׁפְחָ֑ה וָֽאֶשְׁלְחָה֙ לְהַגִּ֣יד לַֽאדֹנִ֔י לִמְצֹא־חֵ֖ן בְּעֵינֶֽיךָ׃ [Genesis 32:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.32.6/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:1004` 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 32:5 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1003/) - next →: [Genesis 32:7 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1005/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 32:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.32.6/)