--- title: Genesis 11:3 (JPS 1917) — And they said one to another: 'Come, let us make brick, and burn the… · tree and pragmatics description: And they said one to another: 'Come, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly.' And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. Who acts: language, slime. 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And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. **Who acts:** language, slime · **What happens:** say, come, let, make, burn, have · **To what, where:** one, us, brick, language · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is Genesis 11:3 · 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 (language, slime), 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:281 # text = And they said one to another: 'Come, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly.' And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 one one PRON CD _ 3 obl _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 4 nmod _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 8 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 9 Come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 ccomp _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 12 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 ccomp _ _ 14 brick brick NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 burn burn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 18 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 thoroughly thoroughly ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ 21 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 22 And and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 25 brick brick NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 26 for for ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 slime slime NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 32 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 33 for for ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 mortar mortar NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: suggest - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | language | one | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **come** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **let** | infinitive | | us | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **make** | infinitive | | brick | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset brick=Product | | 5 | **burn** | infinitive | | language | | | | thoroughly *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 6 | **have** | past | language | brick | | | | for stone | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brick=Patient | | 7 | **have** | past | slime | | | | | for mortar | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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} וַיֹּאמְר֞וּ אִ֣ישׁ אֶל־רֵעֵ֗הוּ הָ֚בָה נִלְבְּנָ֣ה לְבֵנִ֔ים וְנִשְׂרְפָ֖ה לִשְׂרֵפָ֑ה וַתְּהִ֨י לָהֶ֤ם הַלְּבֵנָה֙ לְאָ֔בֶן וְהַ֣חֵמָ֔ר הָיָ֥ה לָהֶ֖ם לַחֹֽמֶר׃ [Genesis 11:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.11.3/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:281` 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 11:2 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.280/) - next →: [Genesis 11:4 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.282/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 11:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.11.3/)