--- title: Genesis 15:3 — And Abram said: 'Behold, to me Thou hast given no seed, and, lo, one… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: And Abram said: 'Behold, to me Thou hast given no seed, and, lo, one born in my house is to be mine heir.' Who acts: Abram, Thou, one. Genesis 15:3 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Onkelos, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.15.3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Torah](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/) / [Genesis](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/) / [chapter 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/15/) / 15:3 # Genesis 15:3 בְּרֵאשִׁית **Who acts:** Abram, Thou, one · **What happens:** say, give, bear, be · **To what, where:** seed, me, house, heir · **Speech:** someone speaks in this verse This is Genesis 15:3 from Mova's open Bible corpus, the Tanakh in three languages (The Torah). The page gives the verse in Hebrew as the Westminster Leningrad Codex has it, its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, built from MACULA Hebrew — and its pragmatics: who acts — Abram, Thou, one — and what happens in the verse to seed, me, house, heir, read clause by clause by Mova's frames. Beside it stand the Aramaic of Targum Onkelos and the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, each English sentence with a tree of its own. It is one of the 50 chapters of Genesis on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between. וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אַבְרָ֔ם הֵ֣ן לִ֔י לֹ֥א נָתַ֖תָּה זָ֑רַע וְהִנֵּ֥ה בֶן־בֵּיתִ֖י יוֹרֵ֥שׁ אֹתִֽי׃ [And Abram said: 'Behold, to me Thou hast given no seed, and, lo, one born in my house is to be mine heir.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.379/) ## The tree {#tree} Right to left, as the Hebrew is read; a prefix or suffix is a word of its own, and a line under the words joins those written as one. Under each word its part of speech and MACULA's English gloss. ```conllu rtl gloss # sent_id = wlc:GEN:363 # text = וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אַבְרָ֔ם הֵ֣ן לִ֔י לֹ֥א נָתַ֖תָּה זָ֑רַע וְהִנֵּ֥ה בֶן־בֵּיתִ֖י יוֹרֵ֥שׁ אֹתִֽי׃ # verse = GEN.15.3 1-2 וַיֹּ֣אמֶר _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 2 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_15:3!1|MId=o010150030011|Strong=2050b 2 יֹּ֣אמֶר אָמַר VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=he.said|Ref=GEN_15:3!1|MId=o010150030012|Strong=0559|Frame=A0:010150030021;|Type=wayyiqtol 3 אַבְרָ֔ם אַבְרָם PROPN _ _ 2 nsubj _ Gloss=Abram|Ref=GEN_15:3!2|MId=o010150030021|Strong=0087 4 הֵ֣ן הֵן INTJ _ _ 8 discourse _ Gloss=here!|Ref=GEN_15:3!3|MId=o010150030031|Strong=2005|Type=demonstrative 5-6 לִ֔י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 5 ל לְ ADP _ _ 6 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=GEN_15:3!4|MId=o010150030041|Strong=3807a 6 ִ֔י הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 obl _ Gloss=me|Ref=GEN_15:3!4|MId=o010150030042|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal 7 לֹ֥א לֹא ADV _ _ 8 advmod _ Gloss=not|Ref=GEN_15:3!5|MId=o010150030051|Strong=3808|Type=negative 8 נָתַ֖תָּה נָתַן VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=2 2 ccomp _ Gloss=you.have.given|Ref=GEN_15:3!6|MId=o010150030061|Strong=5414|Frame=A0:010150020031;A1:010150030071;|Type=qatal 9 זָ֑רַע זֶרַע NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 8 obj _ Gloss=offspring|Ref=GEN_15:3!7|MId=o010150030071|Strong=2233 10-11 וְהִנֵּ֥ה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 10 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 15 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_15:3!8|MId=o010150030081|Strong=2050b 11 הִנֵּ֥ה הִנֵּה INTJ _ _ 15 discourse _ Gloss=there!|Ref=GEN_15:3!8|MId=o010150030082|Strong=2009|Type=demonstrative 12 בֶן־ בֵּן NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ Gloss=the.son|Ref=GEN_15:3!9|MId=o010150030091|Strong=1121|SpaceAfter=No 13-14 בֵּיתִ֖י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 13 בֵּית בַּיִת NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 12 compound:smixut _ Gloss=my.household|Ref=GEN_15:3!10|MId=o010150030101|Strong=1004 14 ִ֖י הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ Gloss=my|Ref=GEN_15:3!10|MId=o010150030102|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal 15 יוֹרֵ֥שׁ יָרַשׁ VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing 8 conj _ Gloss=[is].inheriting|Ref=GEN_15:3!11|MId=o010150030111|Strong=3423|Frame=A0:010150030091;A1:010150030122;|Type=participle_active 16-17 אֹתִֽי _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 16 אֹת אֵת ADP _ _ 17 case _ Gloss=|Ref=GEN_15:3!12|MId=o010150030121|Strong=0853|Type=direct_object_marker 17 ִֽי הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ Gloss=me|Ref=GEN_15:3!12|MId=o010150030122|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal 18 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 17 punct _ Ref=GEN_15:3!12 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - speech: a frame and its quote - negation: yes - the frame alone: decl · narrate · none | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | יֹּאמֶר *he said* | wayyiqtol · qal | אַבְרָם *Abram* | | | | | **not** נָתַתָּה *you have given* | qatal · qal | | זָרַע *offspring* | | | | יוֹרֵשׁ *\[is\] inheriting* | participle active · qal | בֶן־ *the son* | ִֽי *me* | | | MACULA's semantic frames: for each verb the head word of each participant. A0 is the one who acts, A1 what the act is done to or is about, A2 a further participant; AA, with a causative verb, the one who makes it happen. ## Targum Onkelos {#onkelos} וַאֲמַר אַבְרָם הָא לִי לָא יְהַבְתְּ וְלָד וְהָא בַר בֵיתִי יָרִיתּ יָתִי The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet. ## English, JPS 1917 {#english} Each sentence on its own page, with its tree and pragmatics. A sentence that runs on into the next verse is listed under the verse it begins in. 1. [And Abram said: 'Behold, to me Thou hast given no seed, and, lo, one born in my house is to be mine heir.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.379/) **Hebrew text:** Westminster Leningrad Codex, public domain. **Tree, glosses and frames:** MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets, available at [github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew](https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew/), [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); converted to Universal Dependencies by Mova (words in text order, a prefix its own word). **Speech act:** Mova's rules on the MACULA words (`macula prag`). **Targum:** Onkelos (Torat Emet), Jonathan and the Writings (Mikraot Gedolot), from Sefaria, public domain. **English:** JPS 1917, public domain; trees and speech acts by Mova's cycle, frames by Mova's reader (Elamur Cosmic License). 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