--- title: Genesis 14:8 (JPS 1917) — And there went out the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, and… · tree and pragmatics description: And there went out the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela — the same is Zoar; and they set the battle in array against them in the vale of Siddim; Who acts: king, same, Horites. 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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 (king, same, Horites), 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:360 # text = And there went out the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela — the same is Zoar; and they set the battle in array against them in the vale of Siddim; 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 there there PRON EX _ 3 expl _ _ 3 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 out out ADV RP _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 Sodom Sodom PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 Gomorrah Gomorrah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 Admah Admah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 Zeboiim Zeboiim PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 Bela Bela PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 33 — - PUNCT : _ 37 punct _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 nsubj _ _ 36 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 cop _ _ 37 Zoar Zoar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 38 ; ; PUNCT : _ 41 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 40 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 41 set set VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 battle battle NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ _ 44 in in ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 array array NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ _ 46 against against ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 obl _ _ 48 in in ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 49 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 50 vale vale NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ _ 51 of of ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 52 Siddim Siddim PROPN NNP Number=Sing 50 nmod _ _ 53 ; ; PUNCT : _ 3 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 | **go out** | past | the king of Sodom and the king of Gomorrah and the king of Admah and the king of Zeboiim and the king of Bela | | | there | | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | present | the same | Zoar | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **set** | past | Horites | the battle | | array | | against Amorites *= amorite*; in the vale of Siddim | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent battle=Theme in array=Destination | 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} וַיֵּצֵ֨א מֶֽלֶךְ־סְדֹ֜ם וּמֶ֣לֶךְ עֲמֹרָ֗ה וּמֶ֤לֶךְ אַדְמָה֙ וּמֶ֣לֶךְ צְבוֹיִ֔ם וּמֶ֥לֶךְ בֶּ֖לַע הִוא־צֹ֑עַר וַיַּֽעַרְכ֤וּ אִתָּם֙ מִלְחָמָ֔ה בְּעֵ֖מֶק הַשִּׂדִּֽים׃ [Genesis 14:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.14.8/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. 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