--- title: Genesis 39:18 (JPS 1917) — And it came to pass, as I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left… · tree and pragmatics description: And it came to pass, as I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment by me, and fled out.' Who acts: servant, I, Joseph. 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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 (servant, I, 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:1268 # text = And it came to pass, as I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment by me, and fled out.' 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 pass pass VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 as as SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 8 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 lifted lift VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 10 up up ADP RP _ 9 compound:prt _ _ 11 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 that that SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 left leave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 19 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 garment garment NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 by by ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 fled flee VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 26 out out ADP RP _ 25 compound:prt _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 28 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | servant | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **pass** | to-infinitive | servant *not said here* | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **lift up** | past | I | my voice | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Theme | | 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | I *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **leave** | past | Joseph | Joseph's garment | | | | by me | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent garment=Theme by i=Location | | 6 | **flee out** | past | Joseph *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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} וַיְהִ֕י כַּהֲרִימִ֥י קוֹלִ֖י וָאֶקְרָ֑א וַיַּעֲזֹ֥ב בִּגְד֛וֹ אֶצְלִ֖י וַיָּ֥נָס הַחֽוּצָה׃ [Genesis 39:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.39.18/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:1268` 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 39:17 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1267/) - next →: [Genesis 39:19 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1269/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 39:18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.39.18/)