--- title: Genesis 35:3 (JPS 1917) — and let us arise, and go up to Beth-el; and I will make there an alt… · tree and pragmatics description: and let us arise, and go up to Beth-el; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went.' Who acts: you, us, I, God. 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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, us, I, God), 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:1090 # text = and let us arise, and go up to Beth-el; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went.' 1 and and CCONJ CC _ 2 cc _ _ 2 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ _ 4 arise arise VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 8 up up ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 Beth Beth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 12 punct _ _ 12 el el PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 flat _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 16 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 18 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 17 advmod _ _ 19 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 altar altar NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 21 unto unto ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 25 nsubj _ _ 25 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ _ 26 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 distress distress NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 35 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 cop _ _ 36 with with ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 25 conj _ _ 38 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ _ 41 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 43 obj _ _ 42 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 43 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 acl:relcl _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 45 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | us | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **arise** | infinitive | us *not said here* | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **go up** | infinitive | us *not said here* | | Beth | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **make** | future | I | a altar | | there | | unto God | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent altar=Product | | 5 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | God | | me | | day | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent i=Eventuality | | 6 | **is** | past | God *not said here* | | | the way | | with me | tree rules | | 7 | **go** | past | I | the way | | | | | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location which=Theme | | 8 | **distress** | | my | | | | | | nom distress «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | 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} וְנָק֥וּמָה וְנַעֲלֶ֖ה בֵּֽית־אֵ֑לבֵּֽית־אֵ֑ל וְאֶֽעֱשֶׂה־שָּׁ֣ם מִזְבֵּ֗חַ לָאֵ֞ל הָעֹנֶ֤ה אֹתִי֙ בְּי֣וֹם צָֽרָתִ֔י וַיְהִי֙ עִמָּדִ֔י בַּדֶּ֖רֶךְ אֲשֶׁ֥ר הָלָֽכְתִּי׃ [Genesis 35:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.35.3/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:1090` 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 35:2 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1089/) - next →: [Genesis 35:4 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1091/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 35:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.35.3/)