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title: Genesis 41:18 (JPS 1917) — And, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fat-fleshed… · tree and pragmatics
description: And, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fat-fleshed and well-favoured; and they fed in the reed-grass. Who acts: seven kine, men. Genesis 41:18 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 41:18 · JPS 1917

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And, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fat-fleshed and well-favoured; and they fed in the reed-grass.

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**Who acts:** seven kine, men · **What happens:** come up, feed · **To what, where:** river, reed grass

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This is Genesis 41:18 · 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 (seven kine, men), 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:1317
# text = And, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fat-fleshed and well-favoured; and they fed in the reed-grass.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	6	expl	_	_
6	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	up	up	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	kine	kine	NOUN	NN	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	fat	fat	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	_
17	fleshed	fleshed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	_
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	_
21	favoured	favoured	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	fed	feed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	reed	reed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	_
30	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **come up** | past | seven kine |  |  | the river; there |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme out river=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **feed** | past | men *= man* |  |  | the reed grass |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in grass=Location |

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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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וְהִנֵּ֣ה מִן־הַיְאֹ֗ר עֹלֹת֙ שֶׁ֣בַע פָּר֔וֹת בְּרִיא֥וֹת בָּשָׂ֖ר וִיפֹ֣ת תֹּ֑אַר וַתִּרְעֶ֖ינָה בָּאָֽחוּ׃

[Genesis 41:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.41.18/)

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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:1317` 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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