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title: Genesis 32:9 (JPS 1917) — (32-9) And he said: 'If Esau come to the one camp, and smite it, the… · tree and pragmatics
description: (32-9) And he said: 'If Esau come to the one camp, and smite it, then the camp which is left shall escape.' Who acts: Jacob, Esau, camp. Genesis 32:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 32:9 · JPS 1917

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(32-9) And he said: 'If Esau come to the one camp, and smite it, then the camp which is left shall escape.'

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**Who acts:** Jacob, Esau, camp · **What happens:** say, come, smite, leave, escape · **To what, where:** one camp, camp · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Genesis 32:9 · JPS 1917 in the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, from Mova's open Bible corpus. 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 (Jacob, Esau, camp), 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:1008
# text = (32-9) And he said: 'If Esau come to the one camp, and smite it, then the camp which is left shall escape.'
1	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
2	32-9	32-9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	discourse	_	_
3	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
8	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	_
9	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	Esau	Esau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Sub|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	advcl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	smite	smite	VERB	VB	Mood=Sub|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
21	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	28	advmod	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl:relcl	_	_
27	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
30	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=decl, act=assert, polarity=none, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Jacob |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **come** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | Esau |  |  | the one camp |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to camp=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **smite** | infinitive | Esau *not said here* | camp |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer |
| 4 | **leave** | present · passive |  | the camp |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **escape** | shall | the camp |  |  |  | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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}

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וַיֹּ֕אמֶר אִם־יָב֥וֹא עֵשָׂ֛ו אֶל־הַמַּחֲנֶ֥ה הָאַחַ֖ת וְהִכָּ֑הוּ וְהָיָ֛ה הַמַּחֲנֶ֥ה הַנִּשְׁאָ֖ר לִפְלֵיטָֽה׃

[Genesis 32:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.32.9/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:1008` 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.

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