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title: Genesis 46:34 (JPS 1917) — that ye shall say: Thy servants have been keepers of cattle from our… · tree and pragmatics
description: that ye shall say: Thy servants have been keepers of cattle from our youth even until now, both we, and our fathers; that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination unto the Egyptians.' Who acts: ye, servants, shepherd. Genesis 46:34 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree
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# Genesis 46:34 · JPS 1917

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that ye shall say: Thy servants have been keepers of cattle from our youth even until now, both we, and our fathers; that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination unto the Egyptians.'

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**Who acts:** ye, servants, shepherd · **What happens:** say, be, dwell · **To what, where:** keepers, youth, land, abomination · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Genesis 46:34 · 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 (ye, servants, shepherd), 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:1537
# text = that ye shall say: Thy servants have been keepers of cattle from our youth even until now, both we, and our fathers; that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination unto the Egyptians.'
1	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Ind|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
6	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
8	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	cop	_	_
10	keepers	keeper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	ccomp	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
16	even	even	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	until	until	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc:preconj	_	_
21	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	conj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	fathers	father	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
28	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	30	nsubj	_	_
29	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	dwell	dwell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	Goshen	Goshen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
36	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	42	punct	_	_
37	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
38	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	39	det	_	_
39	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
40	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	cop	_	_
41	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	abomination	abomination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
43	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	Egyptians	Egyptian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	42	nmod	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
47	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | shall | ye |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present · perfect | Thy servants | keepers |  | our youth |  | of cattle | tree rules |
| 3 | **dwell** | may | ye |  |  | the land of Goshen |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in land=Location |
| 4 | **is a** | present | every shepherd | a abomination |  |  |  | unto the Egyptians | tree rules |

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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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וַאֲמַרְתֶּ֗ם אַנְשֵׁ֨י מִקְנֶ֜ה הָי֤וּ עֲבָדֶ֙יךָ֙ מִנְּעוּרֵ֣ינוּ וְעַד־עַ֔תָּה גַּם־אֲנַ֖חְנוּ גַּם־אֲבֹתֵ֑ינוּ בַּעֲב֗וּר תֵּשְׁבוּ֙ בְּאֶ֣רֶץ גֹּ֔שֶׁן כִּֽי־תוֹעֲבַ֥ת מִצְרַ֖יִם כָּל־רֹ֥עֵה צֹֽאן׃

[Genesis 46:34: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.46.34/)

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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:1537` 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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