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title: Genesis 18:4 (JPS 1917) — Let now a little water be fetched, and wash your feet, and recline y… · tree and pragmatics
description: Let now a little water be fetched, and wash your feet, and recline yourselves under the tree. Who acts: you. Genesis 18:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 18:4 · JPS 1917

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Let now a little water be fetched, and wash your feet, and recline yourselves under the tree.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** let, fetch, wash, recline · **To what, where:** little water, feet, yourselves, tree

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This is Genesis 18:4 · 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 (you), 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:444
# text = Let now a little water be fetched, and wash your feet, and recline yourselves under the tree.
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	fetched	fetch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	ccomp	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	wash	wash	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
11	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	recline	recline	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
16	yourselves	yourselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	15	obj	_	_
17	under	under	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fetch** | infinitive · passive |  | a little water |  |  | now |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **wash** | infinitive | you *not said here* | your feet |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Patient |
| 4 | **recline** | infinitive | you *not said here* | yourselves |  | the tree |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent yourselves=Theme under tree=Destination |

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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}

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יֻקַּֽח־נָ֣א מְעַט־מַ֔יִם וְרַחֲצ֖וּ רַגְלֵיכֶ֑ם וְהִֽשָּׁעֲנ֖וּ תַּ֥חַת הָעֵֽץ׃

[Genesis 18:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.18.4/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:444` 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.

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