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title: Genesis 21:15 — And the water in the bottle was spent, and she cast the child under… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics
description: And the water in the bottle was spent, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs. Who acts: Hagar. Genesis 21:15 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Onkelos, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 21:15 בְּרֵאשִׁית

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**Who acts:** Hagar · **What happens:** spend, cast · **To what, where:** water, child

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This is Genesis 21:15 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 — Hagar — and what happens in the verse to water, child, 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.

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וַיִּכְל֥וּ הַמַּ֖יִם מִן־הַחֵ֑מֶת וַתַּשְׁלֵ֣ךְ אֶת־הַיֶּ֔לֶד תַּ֖חַת אַחַ֥ד הַשִּׂיחִֽם׃

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[And the water in the bottle was spent, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.556/)

## The tree {#tree}

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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:528
# text = וַיִּכְל֥וּ הַמַּ֖יִם מִן־הַחֵ֑מֶת וַתַּשְׁלֵ֣ךְ אֶת־הַיֶּ֔לֶד תַּ֖חַת אַחַ֥ד הַשִּׂיחִֽם׃
# verse = GEN.21.15
1-2	וַיִּכְל֥וּ	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
1	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	2	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_21:15!1|MId=o010210150011|Strong=2050b
2	יִּכְל֥וּ	כָּלָה	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3	0	root	_	Gloss=they.were.finished|Ref=GEN_21:15!1|MId=o010210150012|Strong=3615|Frame=A0:010210150022;|Type=wayyiqtol
3-4	הַמַּ֖יִם	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
3	הַ	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	4	det	_	Gloss=the|Ref=GEN_21:15!2|MId=o010210150021|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
4	מַּ֖יִם	מַיִם	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	Gloss=water(s)|Ref=GEN_21:15!2|MId=o010210150022|Strong=4325
5	מִן־	מִן	ADP	_	_	7	case	_	Gloss=from|Ref=GEN_21:15!3|MId=o010210150031|Strong=4480|SpaceAfter=No
6-7	הַחֵ֑מֶת	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
6	הַ	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	7	det	_	Gloss=the|Ref=GEN_21:15!4|MId=o010210150041|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
7	חֵ֑מֶת	חֵמֶת	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	2	obl	_	Gloss=skin|Ref=GEN_21:15!4|MId=o010210150042|Strong=2573
8-9	וַתַּשְׁלֵ֣ךְ	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
8	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	9	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_21:15!5|MId=o010210150051|Strong=2050b
9	תַּשְׁלֵ֣ךְ	שָׁלַךְ	VERB	_	Gender=Fem|HebBinyan=HIPHIL|Number=Sing|Person=3	2	conj	_	Gloss=she.threw|Ref=GEN_21:15!5|MId=o010210150052|Strong=7993|Frame=AA:010210140101;A0:010210150072;|Type=wayyiqtol
10	אֶת־	אֵת	ADP	_	_	12	case	_	Gloss=(et)|Ref=GEN_21:15!6|MId=o010210150061|Strong=0853|Type=direct_object_marker|SpaceAfter=No
11-12	הַיֶּ֔לֶד	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
11	הַ	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	12	det	_	Gloss=the|Ref=GEN_21:15!7|MId=o010210150071|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
12	יֶּ֔לֶד	יֶלֶד	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	9	obj	_	Gloss=boy|Ref=GEN_21:15!7|MId=o010210150072|Strong=3206
13	תַּ֖חַת	תַּחַת	NOUN	_	_	9	obl	_	Gloss=under|Ref=GEN_21:15!8|MId=o010210150081|Strong=8478
14	אַחַ֥ד	אֶחָד	NUM	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	16	nummod	_	Gloss=one|Ref=GEN_21:15!9|MId=o010210150091|Strong=0259|Type=cardinal_number
15-16	הַשִּׂיחִֽם	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
15	הַ	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	16	det	_	Gloss=of|Ref=GEN_21:15!10|MId=o010210150101|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
16	שִּׂיחִֽם	שִׂיחַ	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur	13	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=the.bushes|Ref=GEN_21:15!10|MId=o010210150102|Strong=7880
17	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	_	16	punct	_	Ref=GEN_21:15!10
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- speech: narration
- negation: no

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| verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| יִּכְלוּ *they were finished* | wayyiqtol · qal | מַּיִם *water(s)* |  |  |  |
| תַּשְׁלֵךְ *she threw* | wayyiqtol · hiphil | יֶּלֶד *boy* |  |  |  |

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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}

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וּשְׁלִימוּ מַיָּא מִן רָקְבָּא וּרְמַת יָת רַבְיָא תְּחוֹת חַד מִן אִילָנַיָּא

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The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet.

## English, JPS 1917 {#english}

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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.

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1. [And the water in the bottle was spent, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.556/)

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**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).

Hebrew sentence `wlc:GEN:528`.

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