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title: Genesis 31:37 (JPS 1917) — Set it here before my brethren and thy brethren, that they may judge… · tree and pragmatics
description: Set it here before my brethren and thy brethren, that they may judge betwixt us two. Who acts: you, brethren. Genesis 31:37 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 31:37 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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Set it here before my brethren and thy brethren, that they may judge betwixt us two.

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**Who acts:** you, brethren · **What happens:** set, judge · **To what, where:** stuff, brethren

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This is Genesis 31:37 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 (you, brethren), 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:978
# text = Set it here before my brethren and thy brethren, that they may judge betwixt us two.
1	Set	set	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	advmod	_	_
4	before	before	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	brethren	brethren	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	brethren	brethren	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	judge	judge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
15	betwixt	betwixt	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
17	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **set** | imperative | you *not said here* | stuff |  | my brethren and thy brethren; here |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme before brethren=Destination |
| 2 | **judge** | may | brethren |  |  |  |  | betwixt us | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent |

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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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כִּֽי־מִשַּׁ֣שְׁתָּ אֶת־כָּל־כֵּלַ֗י מַה־מָּצָ֙אתָ֙ מִכֹּ֣ל כְּלֵי־בֵיתֶ֔ךָ שִׂ֣ים כֹּ֔ה נֶ֥גֶד אַחַ֖י וְאַחֶ֑יךָ וְיוֹכִ֖יחוּ בֵּ֥ין שְׁנֵֽינוּ׃

[Genesis 31:37: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.31.37/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [Whereas thou hast felt about all my stuff, what hast thou found of all thy household stuff?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.977/)
2. **Set it here before my brethren and thy brethren, that they may judge betwixt us two.**

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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:978` 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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