--- title: Genesis 49:9 (JPS 1917) — He stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as a lioness; who shall r… · tree and pragmatics description: He stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as a lioness; who shall rouse him up? Who acts: Judah. Genesis 49:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1608/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Torah](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/) / [Genesis](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/) / [chapter 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/49/) / [49:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.49.9/) / JPS 2 # Genesis 49:9 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 He stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as a lioness; who shall rouse him up? **Who acts:** Judah · **What happens:** stoop down, couch, rouse up · **To what, where:** Judah This is Genesis 49:9 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 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 (Judah), 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:1608 # text = He stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as a lioness; who shall rouse him up? 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 stooped stoop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 down down ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 couched couch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 7 as as ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 lion lion NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 as as ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 lioness lioness NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 16 who who PRON WP PronType=Int 18 nsubj _ _ 17 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 rouse rouse VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ _ 19 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 up up ADP RP _ 18 compound:prt _ _ 21 ? ? PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=q | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stoop down** | past | Judah | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **couch** | past | Judah | | | | | as a lion and a lioness | tree rules | | 3 | **rouse up** | shall | | Judah | | | | | vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | 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} גּ֤וּר אַרְיֵה֙ יְהוּדָ֔ה מִטֶּ֖רֶף בְּנִ֣י עָלִ֑יתָ כָּרַ֨ע רָבַ֧ץ כְּאַרְיֵ֛ה וּכְלָבִ֖יא מִ֥י יְקִימֶֽנּוּ׃ [Genesis 49:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.49.9/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. [Judah is a lion's whelp; from the prey, my son, thou art gone up.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1607/) 2. **He stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as a lioness; who shall rouse him up?** **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:1608` 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 49:9 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1607/) - next →: [Genesis 49:10 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1609/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 49:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.49.9/)