--- title: Genesis 37:32 (JPS 1917) — and they sent the coat of many colours, and they brought it to their… · tree and pragmatics description: and they sent the coat of many colours, and they brought it to their father; and said: 'This have we found. Who acts: children, we. 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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 (children, we), 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:1211 # text = and they sent the coat of many colours, and they brought it to their father; and said: 'This have we found. 1 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 sent send VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 coat coat NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 colours colour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 brought bring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 20 : : PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 21 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ _ 22 This this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 25 obj _ _ 23 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 19 ccomp _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=narrate, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **send** | past | children *= child* | the coat of many colours | | | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coat=Theme | | 2 | **bring** | past | children *= child* | coat | children's father | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to father=Destination | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | children *= child* *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **find** | present · perfect | we | This | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=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} וַֽיְשַׁלְּח֞וּ אֶת־כְּתֹ֣נֶת הַפַּסִּ֗ים וַיָּבִ֙יאוּ֙ אֶל־אֲבִיהֶ֔ם וַיֹּאמְר֖וּ זֹ֣את מָצָ֑אנוּ הַכֶּר־נָ֗א הַכְּתֹ֧נֶת בִּנְךָ֛ הִ֖וא אִם־לֹֽא׃ [Genesis 37:32: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.37.32/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. **and they sent the coat of many colours, and they brought it to their father; and said: 'This have we found.** 2. [Know now whether it is thy son's coat or not.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1212/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:1211` 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 37:31 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1210/) - next →: [Genesis 37:32 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1212/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 37:32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.37.32/)