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title: Genesis 24:60 (JPS 1917) — And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her: 'Our sister, be thou th… · tree and pragmatics
description: And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her: 'Our sister, be thou the mother of thousands of ten thousands, and let thy seed possess the gate of those that hate them.' Who acts: things, thou. Genesis 24:60 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 24:60 · JPS 1917

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And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her: 'Our sister, be thou the mother of thousands of ten thousands, and let thy seed possess the gate of those that hate them.'

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**Who acts:** things, thou · **What happens:** bless, say, be, let, possess, hate · **To what, where:** Rebekah, mother, seed, gate, things · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Genesis 24:60 · 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 (things, thou), 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:685
# text = And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her: 'Our sister, be thou the mother of thousands of ten thousands, and let thy seed possess the gate of those that hate them.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	blessed	bless	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Rebekah	Rebekah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	iobj	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
11	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
12	Our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	vocative	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	cop	_	_
16	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	18	nsubj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	ccomp	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
27	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	possess	possess	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	ccomp	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	31	nmod	_	_
34	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj	_	_
35	hate	hate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	acl:relcl	_	_
36	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
38	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed act=request, polarity=pos

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bless** | past | things *= thing* | Rebekah |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rebekah=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | things *= thing* *not said here* |  | Rebekah |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent she=Topic |
| 3 | **is a** | infinitive | thou | the mother |  |  |  | of thousands of ten thousands; Our sister *vocative* | tree rules |
| 4 | **let** | infinitive | thou *not said here* | thy seed |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **possess** | infinitive | thou *not said here* | the gate of those |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot gate=Theme |
| 6 | **hate** | present |  | things *= thing* |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |

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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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וַיְבָרֲכ֤וּ אֶת־רִבְקָה֙ וַיֹּ֣אמְרוּ לָ֔הּ אֲחֹתֵ֕נוּ אַ֥תְּ הֲיִ֖י לְאַלְפֵ֣י רְבָבָ֑ה וְיִירַ֣שׁ זַרְעֵ֔ךְ אֵ֖ת שַׁ֥עַר שֹׂנְאָֽיו׃

[Genesis 24:60: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.24.60/)

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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:685` 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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