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title: Genesis 34:25 (JPS 1917) — And it came to pass on the third day, when they were in pain, that t… · tree and pragmatics
description: And it came to pass on the third day, when they were in pain, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city unawares, and slew all the males. Who acts: gate, men, two. Genesis 34:25 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Genesis 34:25 · JPS 1917

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And it came to pass on the third day, when they were in pain, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city unawares, and slew all the males.

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**Who acts:** gate, men, two · **What happens:** come, pass, be, take, slay · **To what, where:** pain, man, city, males

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This is Genesis 34:25 · 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 (gate, men, two), 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:1081
# text = And it came to pass on the third day, when they were in pain, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city unawares, and slew all the males.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	9	amod	_	_
9	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	15	mark	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	advcl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
18	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	nsubj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Jacob	Jacob	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	Simeon	Simeon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	Levi	Levi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	Dinah	Dinah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod:poss	_	_
30	's	's	PART	POS	_	29	case	_	_
31	brethren	brethren	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	appos	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
33	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
34	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	35	det	_	_
35	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl:unmarked	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	conj	_	_
41	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
44	unawares	unawares	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	40	advmod	_	_
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	slew	slay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	conj	_	_
48	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	50	det:predet	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	males	male	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	obj	_	_
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | gate |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pass** | to-infinitive | gate *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | men *= man* |  |  | pain |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **take** | past | two of the sons of Jacob | each man |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme |
| 5 | **come** | past | two of the sons of Jacob *not said here* |  |  | the city |  | unawares *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon city=Location |
| 6 | **slay** | past | two of the sons of Jacob *not said here* | all males |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent male=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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וַיְהִי֩ בַיּ֨וֹם הַשְּׁלִישִׁ֜י בִּֽהְיוֹתָ֣ם כֹּֽאֲבִ֗ים וַיִּקְח֣וּ שְׁנֵֽי־בְנֵי־יַ֠עֲקֹב שִׁמְע֨וֹן וְלֵוִ֜י אֲחֵ֤י דִינָה֙ אִ֣ישׁ חַרְבּ֔וֹ וַיָּבֹ֥אוּ עַל־הָעִ֖יר בֶּ֑טַח וַיַּֽהַרְג֖וּ כָּל־זָכָֽר׃

[Genesis 34:25: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.34.25/)

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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:1081` 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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