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title: Genesis 24:43 (JPS 1917) — behold, I stand by the fountain of water; and let it come to pass, t… · tree and pragmatics
description: behold, I stand by the fountain of water; and let it come to pass, that the maiden that cometh forth to draw, to whom I shall say: Give me, I pray thee, a little water from thy pitcher to drink; Who acts: I, maiden, fountain. Genesis 24:43 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Genesis 24:43 · JPS 1917

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behold, I stand by the fountain of water; and let it come to pass, that the maiden that cometh forth to draw, to whom I shall say: Give me, I pray thee, a little water from thy pitcher to drink;

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**Who acts:** I, maiden, fountain · **What happens:** stand, let, come, pass, draw, say · **To what, where:** fountain, little water, me, pitcher, thee · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Genesis 24:43 · 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, maiden, fountain), 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:664
# text = behold, I stand by the fountain of water; and let it come to pass, that the maiden that cometh forth to draw, to whom I shall say: Give me, I pray thee, a little water from thy pitcher to drink;
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	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
16	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	cometh	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	draw	draw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	31	obl	_	_
29	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl:relcl	_	_
32	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
33	Give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	ccomp	_	_
34	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	iobj	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	pray	pray	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	parataxis	_	_
38	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	37	obj	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
43	from	from	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	45	nmod:poss	_	_
45	pitcher	pitcher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	_
46	to	to	PART	TO	_	47	mark	_	_
47	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	acl	_	_
48	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: offer
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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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 | **let** | infinitive | the maiden | fountain |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** | to-infinitive | fountain *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **pass** | infinitive | fountain *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **come** | present | the maiden |  |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **draw** | to-infinitive | the maiden *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | shall | I |  |  |  |  | to the maiden | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to whom=Experiencer clause=Topic |
| 8 | **give** | infinitive |  | a little water | me | thy pitcher |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient water=Theme |
| 9 | **pray** | present | I | thee |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 10 | **drink** | to-infinitive |  | a little water *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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 וְהָיָ֤ה הָֽעַלְמָה֙ הַיֹּצֵ֣את לִשְׁאֹ֔ב וְאָמַרְתִּ֣י אֵלֶ֔יהָ הַשְׁקִֽינִי־נָ֥א מְעַט־מַ֖יִם מִכַּדֵּֽךְ׃

[Genesis 24:43: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.24.43/)

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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:664` 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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