--- title: Genesis 18:12 — And Sarah laughed within herself, saying: 'After I am waxed old shal… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: And Sarah laughed within herself, saying: 'After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?' Who acts: Sarah, I, lord. Genesis 18:12 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.18.12/) [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 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/18/) / 18:12 # Genesis 18:12 בְּרֵאשִׁית **Who acts:** Sarah, I, lord · **What happens:** laugh, say, wax, have, be · **To what, where:** I, pleasure · **Speech:** someone speaks in this verse This is Genesis 18:12 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 — Sarah, I, lord — and what happens in the verse to I, pleasure, 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. וַתִּצְחַ֥ק שָׂרָ֖ה בְּקִרְבָּ֣הּ לֵאמֹ֑ר אַחֲרֵ֤י בְלֹתִי֙ הָֽיְתָה־לִּ֣י עֶדְנָ֔ה וַֽאדֹנִ֖י זָקֵֽן׃ [And Sarah laughed within herself, saying: 'After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.452/) ## 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:436 # text = וַתִּצְחַ֥ק שָׂרָ֖ה בְּקִרְבָּ֣הּ לֵאמֹ֑ר אַחֲרֵ֤י בְלֹתִי֙ הָֽיְתָה־לִּ֣י עֶדְנָ֔ה וַֽאדֹנִ֖י זָקֵֽן׃ # verse = GEN.18.12 1-2 וַתִּצְחַ֥ק _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 2 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_18:12!1|MId=o010180120011|Strong=2050b 2 תִּצְחַ֥ק צָחַק VERB _ Gender=Fem|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=she.laughed|Ref=GEN_18:12!1|MId=o010180120012|Strong=6711|Frame=A0:010180120021;|Type=wayyiqtol 3 שָׂרָ֖ה שָׂרָה PROPN _ _ 2 nsubj _ Gloss=Sarah|Ref=GEN_18:12!2|MId=o010180120021|Strong=8283 4-6 בְּקִרְבָּ֣הּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 4 בְּ בְּ ADP _ _ 5 case _ Gloss=in|Ref=GEN_18:12!3|MId=o010180120031|Strong=0871a 5 קִרְבּ קֶרֶב NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 2 obl _ Gloss=her.inner|Ref=GEN_18:12!3|MId=o010180120032|Strong=7130 6 ָ֣הּ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ Gloss=being|Ref=GEN_18:12!3|MId=o010180120033|Strong=1886d|Type=pronominal 7-8 לֵאמֹ֑ר _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 7 לֵ לְ ADP _ ExtPos=SCONJ 14 mark _ Gloss=(cmp)|Ref=GEN_18:12!4|MId=o010180120041|Strong=3807a 8 אמֹ֑ר אָמַר VERB _ HebBinyan=QAL 7 fixed _ Gloss=|Ref=GEN_18:12!4|MId=o010180120042|Strong=0559|Frame=A0:010180120021;|Type=infinitive_construct 9 אַחֲרֵ֤י אַחַר ADP _ _ 10 case _ Gloss=after|Ref=GEN_18:12!5|MId=o010180120051|Strong=0310 10-11 בְלֹתִי֙ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 10 בְלֹת בָּלָה VERB _ HebBinyan=QAL 14 advcl _ Gloss=I|Ref=GEN_18:12!6|MId=o010180120061|Strong=1086|Frame=A0:010180120062;|Type=infinitive_construct 11 ִי֙ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ Gloss=am.worn.out|Ref=GEN_18:12!6|MId=o010180120062|Strong=5204a|Type=pronominal 12 הָֽיְתָה־ הָיָה AUX _ Gender=Fem|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 14 cop _ Gloss=has.it.belonged?|Ref=GEN_18:12!7|MId=o010180120071|Strong=1961|Frame=A0:010180120091;|Type=qatal|SpaceAfter=No 13-14 לִּ֣י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 13 לּ לְ ADP _ _ 14 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=GEN_18:12!8|MId=o010180120081|Strong=3807a 14 ִ֣י הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 advcl _ Gloss=me|Ref=GEN_18:12!8|MId=o010180120082|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal 15 עֶדְנָ֔ה עֶדְנָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ Gloss=pleasure|Ref=GEN_18:12!9|MId=o010180120091|Strong=5730a 16-18 וַֽאדֹנִ֖י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 16 וַֽ וְ CCONJ _ _ 19 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_18:12!10|MId=o010180120101|Strong=2050b 17 אדֹנ אָדוֹן NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ Gloss=lord|Ref=GEN_18:12!10|MId=o010180120102|Strong=0113 18 ִ֖י הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ Gloss=my|Ref=GEN_18:12!10|MId=o010180120103|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal 19 זָקֵֽן זָקֵן VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 14 conj _ Gloss=he.is.old|Ref=GEN_18:12!11|MId=o010180120111|Strong=2204|Frame=A0:010180120102;|Type=qatal|SpaceAfter=No 20 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 19 punct _ Ref=GEN_18:12!11 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - speech: a frame and its quote - negation: no - the frame alone: decl · narrate · none | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | תִּצְחַק *she laughed* | wayyiqtol · qal | שָׂרָה *Sarah* | | | | | אמֹר | infinitive construct · qal | שָׂרָה *Sarah* | | | | | בְלֹת *I* | infinitive construct · qal | ִי *am worn out* | | | | | הָֽיְתָה־ *has it belonged?* | qatal · qal | עֶדְנָה *pleasure* | | | | | זָקֵֽן *he is old* | qatal · qal | אדֹנ *lord* | | | | 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} וְחַיְכַת שָׂרָה בִּמְעָהַהּ לְמֵימָר בָּתַר דְּסֵיבִית הֲוַת לִי עוּלֵימוּ וְרִבּוֹנִי סִיב 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 Sarah laughed within herself, saying: 'After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.452/) **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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