--- title: Genesis 24:37 (JPS 1917) — And my master made me swear, saying: Thou shalt not take a wife for… · tree and pragmatics description: And my master made me swear, saying: Thou shalt not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell. Who acts: master, me, Thou, I. 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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 (master, me, Thou, I), 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:658 # text = And my master made me swear, saying: Thou shalt not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 master master NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 swear swear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 10 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 13 nsubj _ _ 11 shalt shall AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 13 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 ccomp _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 for for ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 daughters daughter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nmod _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 Canaanites Canaanites PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 29 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 dwell dwell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl:relcl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | past | my master | me | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **swear** | infinitive | me *not said here* | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | my master *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **not** **take** | shall | Thou | a wife | | | | for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent wife=Theme for son=Beneficiary | | 5 | **dwell** | present | I | | | land | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in land=Location | 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} וַיַּשְׁבִּעֵ֥נִי אֲדֹנִ֖י לֵאמֹ֑ר לֹא־תִקַּ֤ח אִשָּׁה֙ לִבְנִ֔י מִבְּנוֹת֙ הַֽכְּנַעֲנִ֔י אֲשֶׁ֥ר אָנֹכִ֖י יֹשֵׁ֥ב בְּאַרְצֽוֹ׃ [Genesis 24:37: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.24.37/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:658` 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 24:36 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.657/) - next →: [Genesis 24:38 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.659/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 24:37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.24.37/)