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title: Genesis 28:17 (JPS 1917) — And he was afraid, and said: 'How full of awe is this place! this is… · tree and pragmatics
description: And he was afraid, and said: 'How full of awe is this place! this is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.' Who acts: LORD, place, this. Genesis 28:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 28:17 · JPS 1917

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And he was afraid, and said: 'How full of awe is this place! this is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.'

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**Who acts:** LORD, place, this · **What happens:** be, say · **To what, where:** none, gate · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Genesis 28:17 · 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 (LORD, place, this), 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:844
# text = And he was afraid, and said: 'How full of awe is this place! this is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
10	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
11	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	ccomp	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	awe	awe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
17	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
18	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	4	ccomp	_	_
21	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
22	than	than	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
29	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	32	nsubj	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
36	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- 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 | **is** | past | LORD |  |  |  |  | afraid *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | LORD *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | this place |  |  |  |  | of awe; full *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present | this | none |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** | present | this | the gate |  |  |  | of heaven | tree rules |

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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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וַיִּירָא֙ וַיֹּאמַ֔ר מַה־נּוֹרָ֖א הַמָּק֣וֹם הַזֶּ֑ה אֵ֣ין זֶ֗ה כִּ֚י אִם־בֵּ֣ית אֱלֹהִ֔ים וְזֶ֖ה שַׁ֥עַר הַשָּׁמָֽיִם׃

[Genesis 28:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.28.17/)

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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:844` 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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