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title: Genesis 34:4 (JPS 1917) — And Shechem spoke unto his father Hamor, saying: 'Get me this damsel… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Shechem spoke unto his father Hamor, saying: 'Get me this damsel to wife.' Who acts: Shechem. Genesis 34:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 34:4 · JPS 1917

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And Shechem spoke unto his father Hamor, saying: 'Get me this damsel to wife.'

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**Who acts:** Shechem · **What happens:** speak, say, get · **To what, where:** damsel, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Genesis 34:4 · 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 (Shechem), 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:1058
# text = And Shechem spoke unto his father Hamor, saying: 'Get me this damsel to wife.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Shechem	Shechem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	Hamor	Hamor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
13	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	iobj	_	_
14	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	damsel	damsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
19	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | Shechem |  |  |  |  | unto Shechem's father | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Shechem *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **get** | infinitive |  | this damsel | me |  |  | to wife | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary damsel=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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וַיֹּ֣אמֶר שְׁכֶ֔ם אֶל־חֲמ֥וֹר אָבִ֖יו לֵאמֹ֑ר קַֽח־לִ֛י אֶת־הַיַּלְדָּ֥ה הַזֹּ֖את לְאִשָּֽׁה׃

[Genesis 34:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.34.4/)

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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:1058` 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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