--- title: Genesis 18:29 — And he spoke unto Him yet again, and said: 'Peradventure there shall… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: And he spoke unto Him yet again, and said: 'Peradventure there shall be forty found there.' And He said: 'I will not do it for the forty's sake.' Who acts: righteous, forty, I. Genesis 18:29 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.18.29/) [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/) / 18:29 # Genesis 18:29 בְּרֵאשִׁית **Who acts:** righteous, forty, I · **What happens:** speak, say, be, find, not do · **To what, where:** forty · **Speech:** someone speaks in this verse This is Genesis 18:29 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 — righteous, forty, I — and what happens in the verse to forty, 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. וַיֹּ֨סֶף ע֜וֹד לְדַבֵּ֤ר אֵלָיו֙ וַיֹּאמַ֔ר אוּלַ֛י יִמָּצְא֥וּן שָׁ֖ם אַרְבָּעִ֑ים וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ לֹ֣א אֶֽעֱשֶׂ֔ה בַּעֲב֖וּר הָאַרְבָּעִֽים׃ [And he spoke unto Him yet again, and said: 'Peradventure there shall be forty found there.' And He said: 'I will not do it for the forty's sake.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.471/) ## 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:453 # text = וַיֹּ֨סֶף ע֜וֹד לְדַבֵּ֤ר אֵלָיו֙ וַיֹּאמַ֔ר אוּלַ֛י יִמָּצְא֥וּן שָׁ֖ם אַרְבָּעִ֑ים וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ לֹ֣א אֶֽעֱשֶׂ֔ה בַּעֲב֖וּר הָאַרְבָּעִֽים׃ # verse = GEN.18.29 1-2 וַיֹּ֨סֶף _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 2 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_18:29!1|MId=o010180290011|Strong=2050b 2 יֹּ֨סֶף יָסַף VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=HIPHIL|Number=Sing|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=he.repeated|Ref=GEN_18:29!1|MId=o010180290012|Strong=3254|Frame=A0:010180270021;|Type=wayyiqtol 3 ע֜וֹד עוֹד ADV _ _ 2 advmod _ Gloss=again|Ref=GEN_18:29!2|MId=o010180290021|Strong=5750 4-5 לְדַבֵּ֤ר _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 4 לְ לְ ADP _ _ 5 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=GEN_18:29!3|MId=o010180290031|Strong=3807a 5 דַבֵּ֤ר דָבַר VERB _ HebBinyan=PIEL 2 xcomp _ Gloss=speak|Ref=GEN_18:29!3|MId=o010180290032|Strong=1696|Frame=A0:010180270021;|Type=infinitive_construct 6-7 אֵלָיו֙ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 6 אֵלָי אֶל ADP _ _ 7 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=GEN_18:29!4|MId=o010180290041|Strong=0413 7 ו֙ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obl _ Gloss=him|Ref=GEN_18:29!4|MId=o010180290042|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 8-9 וַיֹּאמַ֔ר _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 8 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 9 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_18:29!5|MId=o010180290051|Strong=2050b 9 יֹּאמַ֔ר אָמַר VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 2 conj _ Gloss=he.said|Ref=GEN_18:29!5|MId=o010180290052|Strong=0559|Frame=A0:010180270021;|Type=wayyiqtol 10 אוּלַ֛י אוּלַי ADV _ _ 11 advmod _ Gloss=perhaps|Ref=GEN_18:29!6|MId=o010180290061|Strong=0194 11-12 יִמָּצְא֥וּן _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 11 יִמָּצְא֥וּ מָצָא VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=NIPHAL|Number=Plur|Person=3 9 ccomp _ Gloss=they|Ref=GEN_18:29!7|MId=o010180290071|Strong=4672|Frame=A1:010180290091;|Type=yiqtol 12 ן נ X _ _ 11 nmod _ Gloss=will.be.found|Ref=GEN_18:29!7|MId=o010180290072|Strong=4993b|Type=paragogic_nun 13 שָׁ֖ם שָׁם ADV _ _ 11 advmod _ Gloss=there|Ref=GEN_18:29!8|MId=o010180290081|Strong=8033 14 אַרְבָּעִ֑ים אַרְבַּע NUM _ Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ Gloss=forty|Ref=GEN_18:29!9|MId=o010180290091|Strong=0705|Type=cardinal_number 15-16 וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 15 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 16 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_18:29!10|MId=o010180290101|Strong=2050b 16 יֹּ֙אמֶר֙ אָמַר VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 2 conj _ Gloss=he.said|Ref=GEN_18:29!10|MId=o010180290102|Strong=0559|Frame=A0:010180260021;|Type=wayyiqtol 17 לֹ֣א לֹא ADV _ _ 18 advmod _ Gloss=not|Ref=GEN_18:29!11|MId=o010180290111|Strong=3808|Type=negative 18 אֶֽעֱשֶׂ֔ה עָשָׂה VERB _ Gender=Com|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=1 16 ccomp _ Gloss=I.will.do.[it]|Ref=GEN_18:29!12|MId=o010180290121|Strong=6213|Frame=A0:010180260021;|Type=yiqtol 19-20 בַּעֲב֖וּר _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 19 בַּ בְּ ADP _ _ 20 case _ Gloss=because|Ref=GEN_18:29!13|MId=o010180290131|Strong=0871a 20 עֲב֖וּר עָבוּר NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 18 obl _ Gloss=of|Ref=GEN_18:29!13|MId=o010180290132|Strong=5668 21-22 הָאַרְבָּעִֽים _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 21 הָ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 22 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=GEN_18:29!14|MId=o010180290141|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 22 אַרְבָּעִֽים אַרְבַּע NUM _ Number=Plur 20 compound:smixut _ Gloss=forty|Ref=GEN_18:29!14|MId=o010180290142|Strong=0705|Type=cardinal_number 23 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 22 punct _ Ref=GEN_18:29!14 ``` ## 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | יֹּסֶף *he repeated* | wayyiqtol · hiphil | | | | | | דַבֵּר *speak* | infinitive construct · piel | | | | | | יֹּאמַר *he said* | wayyiqtol · qal | | | | | | יִמָּצְאוּ *they* | yiqtol · niphal | | אַרְבָּעִים *forty* | | | | יֹּאמֶר *he said* | wayyiqtol · qal | | | | | | **not** אֶֽעֱשֶׂה *I will do \[it\]* | yiqtol · qal | | | | | 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} וְאוֹסִף עוֹד לְמַלָּלָא קֳדָמוֹהִי וַאֲמַר מָאִים יִשְׁתַּכְחוּן תַּמָּן אַרְבְּעִין וַאֲמַר לָא אֶעְבְּד גְּמֵרָא בְּדִיל אַרְבְּעִין 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 he spoke unto Him yet again, and said: 'Peradventure there shall be forty found there.' And He said: 'I will not do it for the forty's sake.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.471/) **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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