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title: Genesis 32:32 (JPS 1917) — (32-32) And the sun rose upon him as he passed over Peniel, and he l… · tree and pragmatics
description: (32-32) And the sun rose upon him as he passed over Peniel, and he limped upon his thigh. Who acts: sun, Jacob. Genesis 32:32 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 32:32 · JPS 1917

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(32-32) And the sun rose upon him as he passed over Peniel, and he limped upon his thigh.

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**Who acts:** sun, Jacob · **What happens:** rise, pass, limp · **To what, where:** Peniel, thigh

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This is Genesis 32:32 · 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 (sun, 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:1031
# text = (32-32) And the sun rose upon him as he passed over Peniel, and he limped upon his thigh.
1	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
2	32-32	32-32	NUM	LS	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	dep	_	_
3	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
13	over	over	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Peniel	Peniel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	limped	limp	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
19	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	thigh	thigh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | past | the sun |  |  |  |  | upon Jacob | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon he=Location |
| 2 | **pass** | past | Jacob |  |  | Peniel |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over peniel=Location |
| 3 | **limp** | past | Jacob |  |  | Jacob's thigh |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon thigh=Trajectory |

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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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וַיִּֽזְרַֽח־ל֣וֹ הַשֶּׁ֔מֶשׁ כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר עָבַ֖ר אֶת־פְּנוּאֵ֑ל וְה֥וּא צֹלֵ֖עַ עַל־יְרֵכֽוֹ׃

[Genesis 32:32: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.32.32/)

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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:1031` 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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