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title: Genesis 37:22 (JPS 1917) — And Reuben said unto them: 'Shed no blood; cast him into this pit th… · tree and pragmatics
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# Genesis 37:22 · JPS 1917

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And Reuben said unto them: 'Shed no blood; cast him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand upon him' — that he might deliver him out of their hand, to restore him to his father.

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**Who acts:** Reuben, pit · **What happens:** say, shed, cast, be, lay, deliver · **To what, where:** blood, Reuben, pit, wilderness, hand, dreamer · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Genesis 37:22 · 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 (Reuben, pit), 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:1200
# text = And Reuben said unto them: 'Shed no blood; cast him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand upon him' — that he might deliver him out of their hand, to restore him to his father.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Reuben	Reuben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Shed	shed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
9	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
10	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
12	cast	cast	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	wilderness	wilderness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	acl:relcl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
25	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	26	det	_	_
26	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	_
29	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
30	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
31	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	deliver	deliver	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
35	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	_
36	out	out	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	to	to	PART	TO	_	42	mark	_	_
42	restore	restore	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	advcl	_	_
43	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	obj	_	_
44	to	to	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: suggest
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=suggest

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Reuben |  |  |  |  | unto brethren | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **shed** | infinitive |  | no blood |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location blood=Source |
| 3 | **cast** | infinitive |  | Reuben |  | this pit |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent he=Material into pit=Product |
| 4 | **is** | present | this pit |  |  | the wilderness |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **lay** | infinitive |  | no hand |  |  |  | upon Reuben | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme upon he=Destination |
| 6 | **deliver** | might | Reuben | dreamer |  | brethren's hand |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent he=Theme out hand=Initial\_Location |
| 7 | **restore** | to-infinitive | Reuben *not said here* | Reuben | Reuben's father |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Theme to father=Recipient |

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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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וַיֹּ֨אמֶר אֲלֵהֶ֣ם ׀ רְאוּבֵן֮ אַל־תִּשְׁפְּכוּ־דָם֒ הַשְׁלִ֣יכוּ אֹת֗וֹ אֶל־הַבּ֤וֹר הַזֶּה֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר בַּמִּדְבָּ֔ר וְיָ֖ד אַל־תִּשְׁלְחוּ־ב֑וֹ לְמַ֗עַן הַצִּ֤יל אֹתוֹ֙ מִיָּדָ֔ם לַהֲשִׁיב֖וֹ אֶל־אָבִֽיו׃

[Genesis 37:22: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.37.22/)

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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:1200` 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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