--- title: Genesis 32:7 (JPS 1917) — (32-7) And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying: 'We came to thy… · tree and pragmatics description: (32-7) And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying: 'We came to thy brother Esau, and moreover he cometh to meet thee, and four hundred men with him.' Who acts: messengers, We, Jacob. 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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 (messengers, We, Jacob), 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:1005 # text = (32-7) And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying: 'We came to thy brother Esau, and moreover he cometh to meet thee, and four hundred men with him.' 1 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 2 punct _ _ 2 32-7 32-7 NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 parataxis _ _ 3 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 2 punct _ _ 4 And and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 messengers messenger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 7 returned return VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 Jacob Jacob PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 13 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 14 We we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 ccomp _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 Esau Esau PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 appos _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 moreover moreover ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 cometh come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 meet meet VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ _ 27 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 26 obj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 30 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 31 compound _ _ 31 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 32 nummod _ _ 32 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 conj _ _ 33 with with ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nmod _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ 36 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **return** | past | the messengers | | Jacob | | | | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to jacob=Result | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | the messengers *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **come** | past | We | | | | | to thy brother | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to brother=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **come** | present | Jacob | | | | | moreover *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **meet** | to-infinitive | Jacob *not said here* | thee | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Co-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} וַיָּשֻׁ֙בוּ֙ הַמַּלְאָכִ֔ים אֶֽל־יַעֲקֹ֖ב לֵאמֹ֑ר בָּ֤אנוּ אֶל־אָחִ֙יךָ֙ אֶל־עֵשָׂ֔ו וְגַם֙ הֹלֵ֣ךְ לִקְרָֽאתְךָ֔ וְאַרְבַּע־מֵא֥וֹת אִ֖ישׁ עִמּֽוֹ׃ [Genesis 32:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.32.7/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:1005` 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 32:6 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1004/) - next →: [Genesis 32:8 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1006/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 32:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.32.7/)