--- title: Genesis 19:34 (JPS 1917) — Let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie… · tree and pragmatics description: Let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.' Who acts: us, father, thou, we. 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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 (us, father, thou, we), 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:515 # text = Let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.' 1 Let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 1 nsubj _ _ 3 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 ccomp _ _ 4 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 drink drink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 ccomp _ _ 6 wine wine NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 7 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 8 det _ _ 8 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl:unmarked _ _ 9 also also ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 go go VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 13 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 12 nsubj _ _ 14 in in ADV RP _ 12 advmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 lie lie VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 that that SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 22 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 preserve preserve VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 advcl _ _ 25 seed seed NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ 30 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: suggest - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **let** | infinitive | us | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **make** | infinitive | us *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **drink** | infinitive | father | wine | | | night | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wine=Patient | | 4 | **go** | infinitive | thou | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **lie** | infinitive | thou *not said here* | | | | | with father | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **preserve** | may | we | seed of our father | | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Beneficiary | 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} וַֽיְהִי֙ מִֽמָּחֳרָ֔ת וַתֹּ֤אמֶר הַבְּכִירָה֙ אֶל־הַצְּעִירָ֔ה הֵן־שָׁכַ֥בְתִּי אֶ֖מֶשׁ אֶת־אָבִ֑י נַשְׁקֶ֨נּוּ יַ֜יִן גַּם־הַלַּ֗יְלָה וּבֹ֙אִי֙ שִׁכְבִ֣י עִמּ֔וֹ וּנְחַיֶּ֥ה מֵאָבִ֖ינוּ זָֽרַע׃ [Genesis 19:34: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.19.34/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. [And it came to pass on the morrow, that the first-born said unto the younger: 'Behold, I lay yesternight with my father.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.514/) 2. **Let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.'** **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:515` 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 19:34 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.514/) - next →: [Genesis 19:35 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.516/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 19:34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.19.34/)