--- title: Genesis 49:21 (JPS 1917) — Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words. · tree and pragmatics description: Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words. Who acts: Naphtali. Genesis 49:21 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.1620/) [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/) / [49:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.49.21/) / JPS 1 # Genesis 49:21 · JPS 1917 Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words. **Who acts:** Naphtali · **What happens:** be, let, give · **To what, where:** hind, goodly words This is Genesis 49:21 · 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 (Naphtali), 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:1620 # text = Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words. 1 Naphtali Naphtali PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 hind hind NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 let let VERB VBN VerbForm=Part 4 acl _ _ 6 loose loose ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 xcomp _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 giveth give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 10 goodly goodly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 12 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Naphtali | a hind | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **let** | participle | | a hind *not said here* | | | | loose *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **give** | present | Naphtali | goodly words | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | 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} נַפְתָּלִ֖י אַיָּלָ֣ה שְׁלֻחָ֑ה הַנֹּתֵ֖ן אִמְרֵי־שָֽׁפֶר׃ס [Genesis 49:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.49.21/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:1620` 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 49:20 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1619/) - next →: [Genesis 49:22 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1621/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 49:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.49.21/)