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title: Genesis 34:22 (JPS 1917) — Only on this condition will the men consent unto us to dwell with us… · tree and pragmatics
description: Only on this condition will the men consent unto us to dwell with us, to become one people, if every male among us be circumcised, as they are circumcised. Who acts: men. Genesis 34:22 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 34:22 · JPS 1917

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Only on this condition will the men consent unto us to dwell with us, to become one people, if every male among us be circumcised, as they are circumcised.

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**Who acts:** men · **What happens:** consent, dwell, become, circumcise · **To what, where:** condition, one people, male, men

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This is Genesis 34:22 · 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 (men), 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:1078
# text = Only on this condition will the men consent unto us to dwell with us, to become one people, if every male among us be circumcised, as they are 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	8	obl	_	_
5	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	consent	consent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	dwell	dwell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	xcomp	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
21	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
22	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	det	_	_
23	male	male	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	among	among	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nmod	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	Mood=Sub|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	circumcised	circumcise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	advcl	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
30	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	circumcised	circumcise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	advcl	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consent** | future | the men |  |  | this condition |  | unto us | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **dwell** | to-infinitive | the men *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with us | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with we=Location |
| 3 | **become** | to-infinitive | the men *not said here* | one people |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **circumcise** *a condition, not said to happen* | infinitive · passive |  | every male among us |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **circumcise** | present · passive |  | men *= man* |  |  |  |  | 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־בְּ֠זֹאת יֵאֹ֨תוּ לָ֤נוּ הָאֲנָשִׁים֙ לָשֶׁ֣בֶת אִתָּ֔נוּ לִהְי֖וֹת לְעַ֣ם אֶחָ֑ד בְּהִמּ֥וֹל לָ֙נוּ֙ כָּל־זָכָ֔ר כַּאֲשֶׁ֖ר הֵ֥ם נִמֹּלִֽים׃

[Genesis 34:22: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.34.22/)

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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:1078` of Mova's parse database.

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