--- title: Genesis 37:17 (JPS 1917) — And the man said: 'They are departed hence; for I heard them say: Le… · tree and pragmatics description: And the man said: 'They are departed hence; for I heard them say: Let us go to Dothan.' And Joseph went after his brethren, and found them in Dothan. Who acts: man, I, us, Joseph. 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And Joseph went after his brethren, and found them in Dothan. **Who acts:** man, I, us, Joseph · **What happens:** say, depart, hear, let, go, find · **To what, where:** brethren, us, Dothan · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is Genesis 37:17 · 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 (man, I, us, Joseph), 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:1195 # text = And the man said: 'They are departed hence; for I heard them say: Let us go to Dothan.' And Joseph went after his brethren, and found them in Dothan. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ 6 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 7 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj:pass _ _ 8 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 departed depart VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 ccomp _ _ 10 hence hence ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 12 for for SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 13 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 15 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 ccomp _ _ 17 : : PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 18 Let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 ccomp _ _ 19 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 Dothan Dothan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ 24 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 25 And and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 Joseph Joseph PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 28 after after ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 brethren brethren NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 34 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 Dothan Dothan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the man | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **depart** | present · passive | | brethren | | | | hence *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **hear** | past | I | brethren | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **let** | infinitive | | us | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **go** | infinitive | us *not said here* | | | Dothan | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to dothan=Initial\_Location | | 7 | **go** | past | Joseph | | | | after man's brethren | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **find** | past | Joseph *not said here* | brethren | | Dothan | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic | 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} וַיֹּ֤אמֶר הָאִישׁ֙ נָסְע֣וּ מִזֶּ֔ה כִּ֤י שָׁמַ֙עְתִּי֙ אֹֽמְרִ֔ים נֵלְכָ֖ה דֹּתָ֑יְנָה וַיֵּ֤לֶךְ יוֹסֵף֙ אַחַ֣ר אֶחָ֔יו וַיִּמְצָאֵ֖ם בְּדֹתָֽן׃ [Genesis 37:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.37.17/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:1195` 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 37:16 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1194/) - next →: [Genesis 37:18 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1196/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 37:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.37.17/)