--- title: Genesis 25:22 (JPS 1917) — And the children struggled together within her; and she said: 'If it… · tree and pragmatics description: And the children struggled together within her; and she said: 'If it be so, wherefore do I live?' And she went to inquire of the LORD. Who acts: children, wife, Aramean, I. 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And she went to inquire of the LORD. **Who acts:** children, wife, Aramean, I · **What happens:** struggle, say, be, live, go, inquire · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is Genesis 25:22 · 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 (children, wife, Aramean, 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:718 # text = And the children struggled together within her; and she said: 'If it be so, wherefore do I live?' And she went to inquire of the LORD. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 struggled struggle VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 together together ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 within within ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obl _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 13 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ _ 14 If if SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 16 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 17 cop _ _ 17 so so ADV RB _ 22 advcl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 19 wherefore wherefore ADV WRB PronType=Int 22 advmod _ _ 20 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 21 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 ccomp _ _ 23 ? ? PUNCT . _ 22 punct _ _ 24 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ _ 25 And and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 inquire inquire VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 advcl _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: wh-question - act: ask - voice: character - polarity: none - indirect: yes - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **struggle** | past | the children | | | | | within wife; together *property* | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | wife | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | infinitive | Aramean | | | | | so *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **live** | present · do-support | I | | | | | wherefore *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **go** | past | wife | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **inquire** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | wife *not said here* | | | | | of the LORD | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of lord=Recipient | 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} וַיִּתְרֹֽצֲצ֤וּ הַבָּנִים֙ בְּקִרְבָּ֔הּ וַתֹּ֣אמֶר אִם־כֵּ֔ן לָ֥מָּה זֶּ֖ה אָנֹ֑כִי וַתֵּ֖לֶךְ לִדְרֹ֥שׁ אֶת־יְהוָֽה׃ [Genesis 25:22: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.25.22/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:718` 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 25:21 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.717/) - next →: [Genesis 25:23 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.719/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 25:22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.25.22/)