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title: Genesis 41:23 (JPS 1917) — And, behold, seven ears, withered, thin, and blasted with the east w… · tree and pragmatics
description: And, behold, seven ears, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them. Who acts: seven ears. Genesis 41:23 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 41:23 · JPS 1917

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And, behold, seven ears, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.

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**Who acts:** seven ears · **What happens:** wither, blast, spring up · **To what, where:** seven ears

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This is Genesis 41:23 · 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 ears), 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:1323
# text = And, behold, seven ears, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	19	discourse	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	withered	wither	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	acl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	blasted	blast	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	east	east	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	sprung	spring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	after	after	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	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 | **wither** | participle |  | seven ears *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **blast** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with the east wind | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with wind=Theme |
| 3 | **spring up** | past | seven ears |  |  |  | after men *= man* |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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וְהִנֵּה֙ שֶׁ֣בַע שִׁבֳּלִ֔ים צְנֻמ֥וֹת דַּקּ֖וֹת שְׁדֻפ֣וֹת קָדִ֑ים צֹמְח֖וֹת אַחֲרֵיהֶֽם׃

[Genesis 41:23: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.41.23/)

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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:1323` 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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