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title: Genesis 37:7 (JPS 1917) — for, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf… · tree and pragmatics
description: for, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves came round about, and bowed down to my sheaf.' Who acts: we, sheaf, sheaves. Genesis 37:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 37:7 · JPS 1917

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for, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves came round about, and bowed down to my sheaf.'

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**Who acts:** we, sheaf, sheaves · **What happens:** bind, arise, stand, come round, bow down · **To what, where:** sheaves

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This is Genesis 37:7 · 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 (we, sheaf, sheaves), 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:1182
# text = for, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves came round about, and bowed down to my sheaf.'
1	for	for	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	binding	bind	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	sheaves	sheaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	lo	lo	INTJ	UH	_	19	discourse	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	sheaf	sheaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	arose	arise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	also	also	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
24	upright	upright	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	32	discourse	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
30	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	sheaves	sheaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
32	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
33	round	round	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
34	about	about	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	bowed	bow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	conj	_	_
38	down	down	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	sheaf	sheaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
43	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	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 | **bind** | past · progressive | we | sheaves |  |  |  | in the field | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent sheaf=Destination in field=Theme |
| 2 | **arise** | past | my sheaf |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **stand** | past | my sheaf *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upright *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **come round** | past | your sheaves |  |  |  |  | about, round *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **bow down** | past | your sheaves *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to my sheaf; down *property* | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to sheaf=Theme |

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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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וְ֠הִנֵּה אֲנַ֜חְנוּ מְאַלְּמִ֤ים אֲלֻמִּים֙ בְּת֣וֹךְ הַשָּׂדֶ֔ה וְהִנֵּ֛ה קָ֥מָה אֲלֻמָּתִ֖י וְגַם־נִצָּ֑בָה וְהִנֵּ֤ה תְסֻבֶּ֙ינָה֙ אֲלֻמֹּ֣תֵיכֶ֔ם וַתִּֽשְׁתַּחֲוֶ֖יןָ לַאֲלֻמָּתִֽי׃

[Genesis 37:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.37.7/)

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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:1182` 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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