--- title: Genesis 24:21 (JPS 1917) — And the man looked stedfastly on her; holding his peace, to know whe… · tree and pragmatics description: And the man looked stedfastly on her; holding his peace, to know whether the LORD had made his journey prosperous or not. Who acts: man, LORD. Genesis 24:21 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.641/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Torah](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/) / [Genesis](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/) / [chapter 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/24/) / [24:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.24.21/) / JPS 1 # Genesis 24:21 · JPS 1917 And the man looked stedfastly on her; holding his peace, to know whether the LORD had made his journey prosperous or not. **Who acts:** man, LORD · **What happens:** look, hold, know, make, pacify, journey · **To what, where:** peace, journey · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is Genesis 24:21 · 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 (man, LORD), 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:641 # text = And the man looked stedfastly on her; holding his peace, to know whether the LORD had made his journey prosperous or not. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 stedfastly stedfastly ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obl _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 9 holding hold VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 10 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 peace peace NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 advcl _ _ 15 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 18 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 14 ccomp _ _ 20 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 journey journey NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 prosperous prosperous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 xcomp _ _ 23 or or CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 not not ADV RB Polarity=Neg 22 conj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | past | the man | | | | | on damsel; stedfastly *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on she=Theme | | 2 | **hold** | gerund | the man *not said here* | LORD's peace | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Theme | | 3 | **know** | to-infinitive | the man *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 4 | **make** | past · perfect | the LORD | LORD's journey | | | | prosperous *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent journey=Product | | 5 | **pacify** | | LORD | | | | | | nom peace «state transitive»: poss=agent | | 6 | **journey** | | LORD | | | | | | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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} וְהָאִ֥ישׁ מִשְׁתָּאֵ֖ה לָ֑הּ מַחֲרִ֕ישׁ לָדַ֗עַת הַֽהִצְלִ֧יחַ יְהוָ֛ה דַּרְכּ֖וֹ אִם־לֹֽא׃ [Genesis 24:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.24.21/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:641` 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 24:20 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.640/) - next →: [Genesis 24:22 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.642/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 24:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.24.21/)