--- title: Genesis 32:33 (JPS 1917) — (32-33) Therefore the children of Israel eat not the sinew of the th… · tree and pragmatics description: (32-33) Therefore the children of Israel eat not the sinew of the thigh-vein which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day; because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh, even in the sinew of the thigh-vein. Who acts: children, 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 (children, 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:1032 # text = (32-33) Therefore the children of Israel eat not the sinew of the thigh-vein which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day; because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh, even in the sinew of the thigh-vein. 1 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 2 punct _ _ 2 32-33 32-33 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 discourse _ _ 3 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 2 punct _ _ 4 Therefore therefore ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 sinew sinew NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 15 thigh thigh NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ _ 17 vein vein NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 18 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 22 nsubj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 20 upon upon ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 hollow hollow NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 thigh thigh NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 unto unto ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 29 det _ _ 29 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 30 ; ; PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 31 because because SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 32 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 touched touch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 hollow hollow NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 37 Jacob Jacob PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 nmod:poss _ _ 38 's 's PART POS _ 37 case _ _ 39 thigh thigh NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ _ 40 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 41 even even ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 42 in in ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 sinew sinew NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 45 of of ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 47 thigh thigh NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 compound _ _ 48 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 47 punct _ _ 49 vein vein NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nmod _ _ 50 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **eat** | present | the children of Israel | the sinew of the thigh vein | | | day | therefore *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sinew=Patient | | 2 | **is** | present | | | | | | upon the hollow; of the thigh | tree rules | | 3 | **touch** | past | Jacob | the hollow of Jacob's thigh | | the sinew of the thigh vein | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hollow=Co-Theme | 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} עַל־כֵּ֡ן לֹֽא־יֹאכְל֨וּ בְנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֜ל אֶת־גִּ֣יד הַנָּשֶׁ֗ה אֲשֶׁר֙ עַל־כַּ֣ף הַיָּרֵ֔ךְ עַ֖ד הַיּ֣וֹם הַזֶּ֑ה כִּ֤י נָגַע֙ בְּכַף־יֶ֣רֶךְ יַעֲקֹ֔ב בְּגִ֖יד הַנָּשֶֽׁה׃ [Genesis 32:33: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.32.33/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:1032` 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 32:32 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1031/) - next →: [Genesis 33:1 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1033/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 32:33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.32.33/)