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title: Genesis 41:24 (JPS 1917) — And the thin ears swallowed up the seven good ears. · tree and pragmatics
description: And the thin ears swallowed up the seven good ears. Who acts: thin ears. Genesis 41:24 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 41:24 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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And the thin ears swallowed up the seven good ears.

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**Who acts:** thin ears · **What happens:** swallow up · **To what, where:** seven good ears

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This is Genesis 41:24 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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 (thin 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:1324
# text = And the thin ears swallowed up the seven good ears.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	swallowed	swallow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
9	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **swallow up** | past | the thin ears | the seven good ears |  |  |  |  | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Patient |

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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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וַתִּבְלַ֙עְןָ֙ הָשִׁבֳּלִ֣יםהַדַּקֹּ֔ת אֵ֛ת שֶׁ֥בַע הַֽשִׁבֳּלִ֖ים הַטֹּב֑וֹת וָֽאֹמַר֙ אֶל־הַֽחַרְטֻמִּ֔ים וְאֵ֥ין מַגִּ֖יד לִֽי׃

[Genesis 41:24: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.41.24/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **And the thin ears swallowed up the seven good ears.**
2. [And I told it unto the magicians; but there was none that could declare it to me.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1325/)

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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:1324` 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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