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title: Genesis 24:13 (JPS 1917) — Behold, I stand by the fountain of water; and the daughters of the m… · tree and pragmatics
description: Behold, I stand by the fountain of water; and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water. Who acts: I, daughters. Genesis 24:13 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 24:13 · JPS 1917

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Behold, I stand by the fountain of water; and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water.

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**Who acts:** I, daughters · **What happens:** stand, come out, draw · **To what, where:** water

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This is Genesis 24:13 · 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 (I, daughters), 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:633
# text = Behold, I stand by the fountain of water; and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water.
1	Behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stand	stand	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	fountain	fountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
21	out	out	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	draw	draw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
24	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | present | I |  |  |  |  | by the fountain of water | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fountain=Location |
| 2 | **come out** | present | the daughters of the men of the city |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **draw** | to-infinitive | the daughters of the men of the city *not said here* | water |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme |

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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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הִנֵּ֛ה אָנֹכִ֥י נִצָּ֖ב עַל־עֵ֣ין הַמָּ֑יִם וּבְנוֹת֙ אַנְשֵׁ֣י הָעִ֔יר יֹצְאֹ֖ת לִשְׁאֹ֥ב מָֽיִם׃

[Genesis 24:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.24.13/)

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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:633` 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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