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title: Genesis 37:25 (JPS 1917) — And they sat down to eat bread; and they lifted up their eyes and lo… · tree and pragmatics
description: And they sat down to eat bread; and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a caravan of Ishmaelites came from Gilead, with their camels bearing spicery and balm and ladanum, going to carry it down to Egypt. Who acts: brethren, caravan, camels. Genesis 37:25 in JPS 1917 with its dependenc
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# Genesis 37:25 · JPS 1917

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And they sat down to eat bread; and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a caravan of Ishmaelites came from Gilead, with their camels bearing spicery and balm and ladanum, going to carry it down to Egypt.

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**Who acts:** brethren, caravan, camels · **What happens:** sit down, eat, lift up, look, come, bear · **To what, where:** bread, eyes, Gilead, spicery, caravan, Egypt

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This is Genesis 37:25 · 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 (brethren, caravan, camels), 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:1203
# text = And they sat down to eat bread; and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a caravan of Ishmaelites came from Gilead, with their camels bearing spicery and balm and ladanum, going to carry it down to Egypt.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	down	down	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
7	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	lifted	lift	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	up	up	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	26	discourse	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	caravan	caravan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Ishmaelites	ishmaelite	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
26	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Gilead	Gilead	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	camels	camel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
33	bearing	bear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	32	acl	_	_
34	spicery	spicery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	balm	balm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	ladanum	ladanum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	advcl	_	_
41	to	to	PART	TO	_	42	mark	_	_
42	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	xcomp	_	_
43	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	obj	_	_
44	down	down	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
45	to	to	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **sit down** | past | brethren |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **eat** | to-infinitive | brethren *not said here* | bread |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient |
| 3 | **lift up** | past | brethren | brethren's eyes |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme |
| 4 | **look** | past | brethren *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **come** | past | a caravan of Ishmaelites |  |  | Gilead |  | with brethren's camels | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from gilead=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **bear** | gerund | brethren's camels *not said here* | spicery and balm and ladanum |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spicery=Patient |
| 7 | **go** | gerund | a caravan of Ishmaelites *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 8 | **carry down** | to-infinitive | a caravan of Ishmaelites *not said here* | caravan | Egypt |  |  | down *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to egypt=Destination |

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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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וַיֵּשְׁבוּ֮ לֶֽאֱכָל־לֶחֶם֒ וַיִּשְׂא֤וּ עֵֽינֵיהֶם֙ וַיִּרְא֔וּ וְהִנֵּה֙ אֹרְחַ֣ת יִשְׁמְעֵאלִ֔ים בָּאָ֖ה מִגִּלְעָ֑ד וּגְמַלֵּיהֶ֣ם נֹֽשְׂאִ֗ים נְכֹאת֙ וּצְרִ֣י וָלֹ֔ט הוֹלְכִ֖ים לְהוֹרִ֥יד מִצְרָֽיְמָה׃

[Genesis 37:25: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.37.25/)

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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:1203` 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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