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title: Genesis 37:9 (JPS 1917) — And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brethren, and s… · tree and pragmatics
description: And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brethren, and said: 'Behold, I have dreamed yet a dream: and, behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars bowed down to me.' Who acts: Joseph, I, sun. Genesis 37:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 37:9 · JPS 1917

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And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brethren, and said: 'Behold, I have dreamed yet a dream: and, behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars bowed down to me.'

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**Who acts:** Joseph, I, sun · **What happens:** dream, tell, say, bow down · **To what, where:** dream, brethren, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Genesis 37:9 · 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 (Joseph, I, sun), 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:1184
# text = And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brethren, and said: 'Behold, I have dreamed yet a dream: and, behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars bowed down to me.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	dreamed	dream	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	brethren	brethren	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
18	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	_
19	Behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	23	discourse	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	dreamed	dream	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	ccomp	_	_
24	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	40	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	40	discourse	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	eleven	eleven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	39	nummod	_	_
39	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	conj	_	_
40	bowed	bow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
41	down	down	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
42	to	to	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	40	obl	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
45	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dream** | past | Joseph | another dream |  |  | yet |  | vn cognize-85 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dream=Topic |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Joseph *not said here* | dream | Joseph's brethren |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to brethren=Recipient |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Joseph *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **dream** | present · perfect | I | a dream |  |  | yet |  | vn cognize-85 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dream=Topic |
| 5 | **bow down** | past | the sun and the moon and eleven stars |  | me |  |  | down *property* | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.pivot»: agent=Agent to i=Pivot |

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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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וַיַּחֲלֹ֥ם עוֹד֙ חֲל֣וֹם אַחֵ֔ר וַיְסַפֵּ֥ר אֹת֖וֹ לְאֶחָ֑יו וַיֹּ֗אמֶר הִנֵּ֨ה חָלַ֤מְתִּֽי חֲלוֹם֙ ע֔וֹד וְהִנֵּ֧ה הַשֶּׁ֣מֶשׁ וְהַיָּרֵ֗חַ וְאַחַ֤ד עָשָׂר֙ כּֽוֹכָבִ֔ים מִֽשְׁתַּחֲוִ֖ים לִֽי׃

[Genesis 37:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.37.9/)

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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:1184` 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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