--- title: Genesis 49:6 (JPS 1917) — Let my soul not come into their council; unto their assembly let my… · tree and pragmatics description: Let my soul not come into their council; unto their assembly let my glory not be united; for in their anger they slew men, and in their self-will they houghed oxen. Who acts: you, soul, glory, brethren. 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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, soul, glory, brethren), 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:1604 # text = Let my soul not come into their council; unto their assembly let my glory not be united; for in their anger they slew men, and in their self-will they houghed oxen. 1 Let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 2 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 soul soul NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 xcomp _ _ 6 into into ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 council council NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 10 unto unto ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 assembly assembly NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 13 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 parataxis _ _ 14 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 glory glory NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 17 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 18 aux:pass _ _ 18 united united VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 xcomp _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 20 for for SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 anger anger NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 24 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 slew slay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 26 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 self self NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 32 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 35 punct _ _ 33 will will NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 34 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 houghed hough VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 36 oxen ox NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: express - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=express, voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | my soul | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **come** | infinitive | my soul *not said here* | | | brethren's council | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into council=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **let** | infinitive | | my glory | | | | unto brethren's assembly | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **united** | infinitive · passive | my glory *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **slay** | past | brethren | men | | brethren's anger | | | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient | | 6 | **hough** | past | brethren | oxen | | brethren's self | | | tree rules | | 7 | **glory** | | my | | | | | | nom glory «state intransitive»: poss=agent | | 8 | **anger** | | brethren | | | | | | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent | 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} בְּסֹדָם֙ אַל־תָּבֹ֣א נַפְשִׁ֔י בִּקְהָלָ֖ם אַל־תֵּחַ֣ד כְּבֹדִ֑י כִּ֤י בְאַפָּם֙ הָ֣רְגוּ אִ֔ישׁ וּבִרְצֹנָ֖ם עִקְּרוּ־שֽׁוֹר׃ [Genesis 49:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.49.6/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:1604` 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. - ← previous: [Genesis 49:5 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1603/) - next →: [Genesis 49:7 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1605/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 49:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.49.6/)