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title: Genesis 49:2 (JPS 1917) — Assemble yourselves, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Is… · tree and pragmatics
description: Assemble yourselves, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father. Who acts: you. Genesis 49:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 49:2 · JPS 1917

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Assemble yourselves, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** assemble, hear, hearken · **To what, where:** yourselves

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This is Genesis 49:2 · 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 (you), 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:1600
# text = Assemble yourselves, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father.
1	Assemble	assemble	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	yourselves	yourselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	1	obj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	hear	hear	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	8	det	_	_
8	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	vocative	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Jacob	Jacob	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	hearken	hearken	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
14	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **assemble** | imperative | you *not said here* | yourselves |  |  |  |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent yourselves=Theme |
| 2 | **hear** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | ye sons of Jacob *vocative* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **hearken** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto Israel | 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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הִקָּבְצ֥וּ וְשִׁמְע֖וּ בְּנֵ֣י יַעֲקֹ֑ב וְשִׁמְע֖וּ אֶל־יִשְׂרָאֵ֥ל אֲבִיכֶֽם׃

[Genesis 49:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.49.2/)

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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:1600` 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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