--- title: Genesis 39:12 (JPS 1917) — that she caught him by his garment, saying: 'Lie with me.' And he le… · tree and pragmatics description: that she caught him by his garment, saying: 'Lie with me.' And he left his garment in her hand, and fled, and got him out. Who acts: wife, Joseph. 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And he left his garment in her hand, and fled, and got him out. **Who acts:** wife, Joseph · **What happens:** catch, say, lie, leave, flee, get out · **To what, where:** Joseph, garment, hand · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is Genesis 39:12 · 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 (wife, 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:1262 # text = that she caught him by his garment, saying: 'Lie with me.' And he left his garment in her hand, and fled, and got him out. 1 that that SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 caught catch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 by by ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 garment garment NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 11 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 12 Lie lie VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 9 ccomp _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 obl _ _ 15 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ 16 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ 17 And and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 left leave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 20 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 garment garment NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 fled flee VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 31 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 out out ADV RP _ 30 advmod _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **catch** | past | wife | Joseph | | | | by Joseph's garment | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | wife *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **lie** | infinitive | | | | | | with me | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **leave** | past | Joseph | Joseph's garment | | wife's hand | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent garment=Theme in hand=Location | | 5 | **flee** | past | Joseph *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **get out** | past | Joseph *not said here* | Joseph | | | | out *property* | 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} וַתִּתְפְּשֵׂ֧הוּ בְּבִגְד֛וֹ לֵאמֹ֖ר שִׁכְבָ֣ה עִמִּ֑י וַיַּעֲזֹ֤ב בִּגְדוֹ֙ בְּיָדָ֔הּ וַיָּ֖נָס וַיֵּצֵ֥א הַחֽוּצָה׃ [Genesis 39:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.39.12/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:1262` 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 39:11 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1261/) - next →: [Genesis 39:13 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1263/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 39:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.39.12/)