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title: Genesis 24:15 (JPS 1917) — And it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that, behold, Rebe… · tree and pragmatics
description: And it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder. Who acts: water, servant, Rebekah. Genesis 24:15 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Genesis 24:15 · JPS 1917

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And it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder.

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**Who acts:** water, servant, Rebekah · **What happens:** come, pass, do, speak, come out, bear · **To what, where:** Rebekah, Bethuel · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Genesis 24:15 · 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 (water, servant, Rebekah), 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:635
# text = And it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
11	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	xcomp	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	18	discourse	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	Rebekah	Rebekah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	csubj	_	_
19	out	out	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl:relcl	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Bethuel	Bethuel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Milcah	Milcah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	appos	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	Nahor	Nahor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	Abraham	Abraham	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nmod:poss	_	_
37	's	's	PART	POS	_	36	case	_	_
38	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	appos	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
40	with	with	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	pitcher	pitcher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
43	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
45	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **come** | past | water |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pass** | to-infinitive | water *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **do** | past · perfect | servant |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund | servant *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **come out** | past | Rebekah |  |  |  |  | with Rebekah's pitcher upon Rebekah's shoulder; out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **bear** | past · passive |  | Rebekah | Bethuel |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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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וַֽיְהִי־ה֗וּא טֶרֶם֮ כִּלָּ֣ה לְדַבֵּר֒ וְהִנֵּ֧ה רִבְקָ֣ה יֹצֵ֗את אֲשֶׁ֤ר יֻלְּדָה֙ לִבְתוּאֵ֣ל בֶּן־מִלְכָּ֔ה אֵ֥שֶׁת נָח֖וֹר אֲחִ֣י אַבְרָהָ֑ם וְכַדָּ֖הּ עַל־שִׁכְמָֽהּ׃

[Genesis 24:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.24.15/)

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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:635` 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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