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title: Genesis 49:8 (JPS 1917) — Judah, thee shall thy brethren praise; thy hand shall be on the neck… · tree and pragmatics
description: Judah, thee shall thy brethren praise; thy hand shall be on the neck of thine enemies; thy father's sons shall bow down before thee. Who acts: brethren, hand, sons. Genesis 49:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 49:8 · JPS 1917

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Judah, thee shall thy brethren praise; thy hand shall be on the neck of thine enemies; thy father's sons shall bow down before thee.

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**Who acts:** brethren, hand, sons · **What happens:** praise, be, bow down · **To what, where:** thee, neck

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This is Genesis 49:8 · 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 (brethren, hand, sons), 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:1606
# text = Judah, thee shall thy brethren praise; thy hand shall be on the neck of thine enemies; thy father's sons shall bow down before thee.
1	Judah	Judah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	vocative	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	obj	_	_
4	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	brethren	brethren	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	praise	praise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
9	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
11	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	cop	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	enemies	enemy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
20	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	's	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
24	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	bow	bow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
26	down	down	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	before	before	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	25	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: warn
- 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 | **praise** | shall | thy brethren | thee |  |  |  | Judah *vocative* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | shall | thy hand |  |  | the neck |  | of thine enemies | tree rules |
| 3 | **bow down** | shall | thy father's sons |  |  | thee |  | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before thou=Location |

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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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יְהוּדָ֗ה אַתָּה֙ יוֹד֣וּךָ אַחֶ֔יךָ יָדְךָ֖ בְּעֹ֣רֶף אֹיְבֶ֑יךָ יִשְׁתַּחֲוּ֥וּלְךָ֖ בְּנֵ֥י אָבִֽיךָ׃

[Genesis 49:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.49.8/)

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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:1606` 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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