--- title: Genesis 24:51 (JPS 1917) — Behold, Rebekah is before thee, take her, and go, and let her be thy… · tree and pragmatics description: Behold, Rebekah is before thee, take her, and go, and let her be thy master's son's wife, as the LORD hath spoken.' Who acts: Rebekah, LORD. 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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, 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:676 # text = Behold, Rebekah is before thee, take her, and go, and let her be thy master's son's wife, as the LORD hath spoken.' 1 Behold behold INTJ UH _ 6 discourse _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 Rebekah Rebekah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 before before ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 thee thee ADV RB _ 0 root _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 parataxis _ _ 9 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 go go VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 16 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 23 cop _ _ 18 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 master master NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod:poss _ _ 20 's 's PART POS _ 19 case _ _ 21 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod:poss _ _ 22 's 's PART POS _ 21 case _ _ 23 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 xcomp _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 25 as as SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 28 hath have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 spoken speak VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 15 advcl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ 31 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: offer - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=offer | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Rebekah | | | | | thee *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **take** | infinitive | | | Rebekah | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination | | 3 | **go** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **let** | infinitive | | Rebekah | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | | 5 | **is a** | infinitive | Rebekah *not said here* | thy master's son's wife | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **speak** *speech: other* | present · perfect | the LORD | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «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} הִנֵּֽה־רִבְקָ֥ה לְפָנֶ֖יךָ קַ֣ח וָלֵ֑ךְ וּתְהִ֤י אִשָּׁה֙ לְבֶן־אֲדֹנֶ֔יךָ כַּאֲשֶׁ֖ר דִּבֶּ֥ר יְהוָֽה׃ [Genesis 24:51: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.24.51/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:676` 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 24:50 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.675/) - next →: [Genesis 24:52 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.677/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 24:51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.24.51/)