--- title: Genesis 14:17 (JPS 1917) — And the king of Sodom went out to meet him, after his return from th… · tree and pragmatics description: And the king of Sodom went out to meet him, after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer and the kings that were with him, at the vale of Shaveh — the same is the King's Vale. Who acts: king, kings, same, brother. 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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, kings, same, brother), 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:369 # text = And the king of Sodom went out to meet him, after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer and the kings that were with him, at the vale of Shaveh — the same is the King's Vale. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Sodom Sodom PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 out out ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 meet meet VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 advcl _ _ 10 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 after after ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 return return NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 15 from from ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 slaughter slaughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 Chedorlaomer Chedorlaomer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 kings king NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ _ 23 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 26 nsubj _ _ 24 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 25 with with ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 acl:relcl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 at at ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 vale vale NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 Shaveh Shaveh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 33 — - PUNCT : _ 40 punct _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 nsubj _ _ 36 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 nmod:poss _ _ 39 's 's PART POS _ 38 case _ _ 40 Vale Vale PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 parataxis _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | | | | | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **meet** | to-infinitive | the king of Sodom *not said here* | king | | the vale of Shaveh | after brother's return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer and the kings | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | | 3 | **is** | past | the kings | | | | | with brother | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | present | the same | the King's Vale | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **return** | | brother | | | the slaughter of Chedorlaomer and the kings | | | nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent from=place | | 6 | **slaughter** | | | Chedorlaomer | | | | | nom slaughter «act transitive»: of=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} וַיֵּצֵ֣א מֶֽלֶךְ־סְדֹם֮ לִקְרָאתוֹ֒ אַחֲרֵ֣י שׁוּב֗וֹ מֵֽהַכּוֹת֙ אֶת־כְּדָרלָעֹ֔מֶרוְאֶת־הַמְּלָכִ֖ים אֲשֶׁ֣ר אִתּ֑וֹ אֶל־עֵ֣מֶק שָׁוֵ֔ה ה֖וּא עֵ֥מֶק הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃ [Genesis 14:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.14.17/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:369` 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 14:16 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.368/) - next →: [Genesis 14:18 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.370/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 14:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.14.17/)