--- title: Genesis 34:12 (JPS 1917) — Ask me never so much dowry and gift, and I will give according as ye… · tree and pragmatics description: Ask me never so much dowry and gift, and I will give according as ye shall say unto me; but give me the damsel to wife.' Who acts: you, I, ye. Genesis 34:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1067/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Torah](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/) / [Genesis](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/) / [chapter 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/34/) / [34:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.34.12/) / JPS 1 # Genesis 34:12 · JPS 1917 Ask me never so much dowry and gift, and I will give according as ye shall say unto me; but give me the damsel to wife.' **Who acts:** you, I, ye · **What happens:** not ask, give, accord, say · **To what, where:** much dowry, me, damsel · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is Genesis 34:12 · 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 (you, I, ye), 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:1067 # text = Ask me never so much dowry and gift, and I will give according as ye shall say unto me; but give me the damsel to wife.' 1 Ask ask VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 1 iobj _ _ 3 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 1 advmod _ _ 4 so so ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 dowry dowry NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 gift gift NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 11 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 conj _ _ 14 according accord VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 mark _ _ 15 as as SCONJ IN _ 14 fixed _ _ 16 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 18 nsubj _ _ 17 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 advcl _ _ 19 unto unto ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 obl _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 22 but but CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 give give VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 24 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 iobj _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 damsel damsel NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 27 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ 30 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **ask** *speech: ask* | imperative | you *not said here* | much dowry and gift | me | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **give** | future | I | | | | | | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **accord** | gerund | | | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | shall | ye | | | | | unto me | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **give** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the damsel | me | | | to wife | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient damsel=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} הַרְבּ֨וּ עָלַ֤י מְאֹד֙ מֹ֣הַר וּמַתָּ֔ן וְאֶ֨תְּנָ֔ה כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר תֹּאמְר֖וּ אֵלָ֑י וּתְנוּ־לִ֥י אֶת־הַֽנַּעֲרָ֖ לְאִשָּֽׁה׃ [Genesis 34:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.34.12/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:1067` 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 34:11 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1066/) - next →: [Genesis 34:13 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1068/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 34:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.34.12/)