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title: Genesis 34:15 (JPS 1917) — Only on this condition will we consent unto you: if ye will be as we… · tree and pragmatics
description: Only on this condition will we consent unto you: if ye will be as we are, that every male of you be circumcised; Who acts: we. Genesis 34:15 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 34:15 · JPS 1917

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Only on this condition will we consent unto you: if ye will be as we are, that every male of you be circumcised;

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**Who acts:** we · **What happens:** consent, circumcise · **To what, where:** condition, male

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This is Genesis 34:15 · 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 (we), 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:1070
# text = Only on this condition will we consent unto you: if ye will be as we are, that every male of you be circumcised;
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	condition	condition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
5	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	consent	consent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
11	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nsubj	_	_
13	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
20	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
21	male	male	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nmod	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	circumcised	circumcise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	advcl	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: offer
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consent** | future | we |  |  | this condition |  | unto you | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **circumcise** | infinitive · passive |  | every male of you |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |

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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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אַךְ־בְּזֹ֖את נֵא֣וֹת לָכֶ֑ם אִ֚ם תִּהְי֣וּ כָמֹ֔נוּ לְהִמֹּ֥ל לָכֶ֖ם כָּל־זָכָֽר׃

[Genesis 34:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.34.15/)

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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:1070` 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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