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title: Genesis 34:23 (JPS 1917) — Shall not their cattle and their substance and all their beasts be o… · tree and pragmatics
description: Shall not their cattle and their substance and all their beasts be ours? only let us consent unto them, and they will dwell with us.' Who acts: cattle, us, men. Genesis 34:23 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 34:23 · JPS 1917

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Shall not their cattle and their substance and all their beasts be ours? only let us consent unto them, and they will dwell with us.'

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**Who acts:** cattle, us, men · **What happens:** not be, let, consent, dwell · **To what, where:** ours, us

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This is Genesis 34:23 · 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 (cattle, us, 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:1079
# text = Shall not their cattle and their substance and all their beasts be ours? only let us consent unto them, and they will dwell with us.'
1	Shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	substance	substance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	11	det:predet	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
13	ours	ours	PRON	PRP	Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	0	root	_	_
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
15	only	only	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
17	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	consent	consent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	dwell	dwell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
29	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: suggest
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed indirect=1

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | shall | men's cattle and men's substance and men's beasts | ours |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **let** | infinitive |  | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **consent** | infinitive | us *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto men *= man* | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **dwell** | future | men *= man* |  |  |  |  | with us | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with we=Location |

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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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מִקְנֵהֶ֤ם וְקִנְיָנָם֙ וְכָל־בְּהֶמְתָּ֔ם הֲל֥וֹא לָ֖נוּ הֵ֑ם אַ֚ךְ נֵא֣וֹתָה לָהֶ֔ם וְיֵשְׁב֖וּ אִתָּֽנוּ׃

[Genesis 34:23: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.34.23/)

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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:1079` 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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