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title: Genesis 37:10 (JPS 1917) — Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down to t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down to thee to the earth?' Who acts: I. Genesis 37:10 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 37:10 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down to thee to the earth?'

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** come, bow down

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This is Genesis 37:10 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 (I), 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:1186
# text = Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down to thee to the earth?'
1	Shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	brethren	brethren	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
9	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	bow	bow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	down	down	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	obl	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
20	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: other
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed act=other, polarity=neg

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | shall | I |  |  |  |  | indeed *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **bow down** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to thee; to the earth; down *property* | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to thou=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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וַיְסַפֵּ֣ר אֶל־אָבִיו֮ וְאֶל־אֶחָיו֒ וַיִּגְעַר־בּ֣וֹ אָבִ֔יו וַיֹּ֣אמֶר ל֔וֹ מָ֛ה הַחֲל֥וֹם הַזֶּ֖ה אֲשֶׁ֣ר חָלָ֑מְתָּ הֲב֣וֹא נָב֗וֹא אֲנִי֙ וְאִמְּךָ֣ וְאַחֶ֔יךָ לְהִשְׁתַּחֲוֺ֥ת לְךָ֖ אָֽרְצָה׃

[Genesis 37:10: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.37.10/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [And he told it to his father, and to his brethren; and his father rebuked him, and said unto him: 'What is this dream that thou hast dreamed?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1185/)
2. **Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down to thee to the earth?'**

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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:1186` 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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