--- title: Genesis 37:27 (JPS 1917) — Come, and let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and let not our hand b… · tree and pragmatics description: Come, and let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and let not our hand be upon him; for he is our brother, our flesh.' And his brethren hearkened unto him. Who acts: you, us, hand, Judah. 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And his brethren hearkened unto him. **Who acts:** you, us, hand, Judah, brethren · **What happens:** come, let, sell, not let, be, hearken · **To what, where:** us, Judah, Ishmaelites, brother This is Genesis 37:27 · 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 (you, us, hand, Judah), 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:1205 # text = Come, and let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and let not our hand be upon him; for he is our brother, our flesh.' And his brethren hearkened unto him. 1 Come come VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 5 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 sell sell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 7 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 Ishmaelites Ishmaelite PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 14 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 15 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 17 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 19 cop _ _ 18 upon upon ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 ccomp _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 21 for for SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 24 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 parataxis _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 flesh flesh NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 appos _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ 30 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ _ 31 And and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 32 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 brethren brethren NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ _ 34 hearkened hearken VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 35 unto unto ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **let** | infinitive | you *not said here* | us | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **sell** | infinitive | us *not said here* | Judah | the Ishmaelites | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Theme to ishmaelite=Recipient | | 4 | **not** **let** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | infinitive | our hand | | | | | upon Judah | tree rules | | 6 | **is a** | present | Judah | our brother | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **hearken** | past | Judah's brethren | | | | | unto Judah | tree rules | 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} לְכ֞וּ וְנִמְכְּרֶ֣נּוּ לַיִּשְׁמְעֵאלִ֗ים וְיָדֵ֙נוּ֙ אַל־תְּהִי־ב֔וֹ כִּֽי־אָחִ֥ינוּ בְשָׂרֵ֖נוּ ה֑וּא וַֽיִּשְׁמְע֖וּ אֶחָֽיו׃ [Genesis 37:27: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.37.27/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:1205` 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 37:26 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1204/) - next →: [Genesis 37:28 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1206/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 37:27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.37.27/)