--- title: Genesis 35:22 (JPS 1917) — And it came to pass, while Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben we… · tree and pragmatics description: And it came to pass, while Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine; and Israel heard of it. Who acts: same, Israel, Reuben. 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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 (same, Israel, Reuben), 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:1110 # text = And it came to pass, while Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine; and Israel heard of it. 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 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 while while SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 8 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 dwelt dwell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 12 det _ _ 12 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 that that SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 15 Reuben Reuben PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 lay lie VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 19 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 Bilhah Bilhah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 21 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod:poss _ _ 23 's 's PART POS _ 22 case _ _ 24 concubine concubine NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 appos _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | same | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **pass** | to-infinitive | same *not said here* | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **dwell** | past | Israel | | | that land | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in land=Location | | 4 | **go** | past | Reuben | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **lie** | past | Reuben *not said here* | | | | | with Bilhah | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **hear** | past | Israel | | | | | of same | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of it=Stimulus | 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} וַיְהִ֗י בִּשְׁכֹּ֤ן יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ בָּאָ֣רֶץ הַהִ֔וא וַיֵּ֣לֶךְ רְאוּבֵ֔ן וַיִּשְׁכַּ֕ב֙אֶת־בִּלְהָ֖ה֙פִּילֶ֣גֶשׁ אָבִ֑֔יווַיִּשְׁמַ֖ע יִשְׂרָאֵֽ֑לוַיִּֽהְי֥וּ בְנֵֽי־יַעֲקֹ֖ב שְׁנֵ֥ים עָשָֽׂר׃ [Genesis 35:22: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.35.22/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. **And it came to pass, while Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine; and Israel heard of it.** 2. [Now the sons of Jacob were twelve:](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1111/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:1110` 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 35:21 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1109/) - next →: [Genesis 35:22 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1111/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 35:22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.35.22/)