--- title: Genesis 24:46 (JPS 1917) — And she made haste, and let down her pitcher from her shoulder, and… · tree and pragmatics description: And she made haste, and let down her pitcher from her shoulder, and said: Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also. Who acts: Rebekah, 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 (Rebekah, 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:668 # text = And she made haste, and let down her pitcher from her shoulder, and said: Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 haste haste NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 let let VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 8 down down ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ _ 9 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 pitcher pitcher NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 from from ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 shoulder shoulder NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 17 : : PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 18 Drink drink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 ccomp _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 conj _ _ 24 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 camels camel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 26 drink drink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ _ 27 also also ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **make** | past | Rebekah | haste | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent haste=Product | | 2 | **let down** | past | Rebekah *not said here* | Rebekah's pitcher | | Rebekah's shoulder | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pitcher=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Rebekah *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **drink** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **give** | future | I | thy camels | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **drink** | infinitive | I *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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} וַתְּמַהֵ֗ר וַתּ֤וֹרֶד כַּדָּהּ֙ מֵֽעָלֶ֔יהָ וַתֹּ֣אמֶר שְׁתֵ֔ה וְגַם־גְּמַלֶּ֖יךָ אַשְׁקֶ֑ה וָאֵ֕שְׁתְּ וְגַ֥ם הַגְּמַלִּ֖ים הִשְׁקָֽתָה׃ [Genesis 24:46: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.24.46/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. **And she made haste, and let down her pitcher from her shoulder, and said: Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also.** 2. [So I drank, and she made the camels drink also.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.669/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:668` 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 24:45 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.667/) - next →: [Genesis 24:46 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.669/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 24:46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.24.46/)