--- title: Genesis 24:8 — And if the woman be not willing to follow thee, then thou shalt be c… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: And if the woman be not willing to follow thee, then thou shalt be clear from this my oath; only thou shalt not bring my son back thither.' Who acts: woman, thou. 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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 — woman, thou — and what happens in the verse to thee, son, 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. וְאִם־לֹ֨א תֹאבֶ֤ה הָֽאִשָּׁה֙ לָלֶ֣כֶת אַחֲרֶ֔יךָ וְנִקִּ֕יתָ מִשְּׁבֻעָתִ֖י זֹ֑את רַ֣ק אֶת־בְּנִ֔י לֹ֥א תָשֵׁ֖ב שָֽׁמָּה׃ [And if the woman be not willing to follow thee, then thou shalt be clear from this my oath; only thou shalt not bring my son back thither.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.628/) ## 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:599 # text = וְאִם־לֹ֨א תֹאבֶ֤ה הָֽאִשָּׁה֙ לָלֶ֣כֶת אַחֲרֶ֔יךָ וְנִקִּ֕יתָ מִשְּׁבֻעָתִ֖י זֹ֑את רַ֣ק אֶת־בְּנִ֔י לֹ֥א תָשֵׁ֖ב שָֽׁמָּה׃ # verse = GEN.24.8 1-2 וְאִם־ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 12 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_24:8!1|MId=o010240080011|Strong=2050b 2 אִם־ אִם SCONJ _ _ 4 mark _ Gloss=if|Ref=GEN_24:8!1|MId=o010240080012|Strong=0518 3 לֹ֨א לֹא ADV _ _ 4 advmod _ Gloss=not|Ref=GEN_24:8!2|MId=o010240080021|Strong=3808|Type=negative 4 תֹאבֶ֤ה אָבָה VERB _ Gender=Fem|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 12 advcl _ Gloss=she.will.be.willing|Ref=GEN_24:8!3|MId=o010240080031|Strong=0014|Frame=A0:010240080042;|Type=yiqtol 5-6 הָֽאִשָּׁה֙ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 5 הָֽ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 6 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=GEN_24:8!4|MId=o010240080041|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 6 אִשָּׁה֙ אִשָּׁה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ Gloss=woman|Ref=GEN_24:8!4|MId=o010240080042|Strong=0802 7-8 לָלֶ֣כֶת _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 7 לָ לְ ADP _ _ 8 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=GEN_24:8!5|MId=o010240080051|Strong=3807a 8 לֶ֣כֶת הלך VERB _ HebBinyan=QAL 4 xcomp _ Gloss=go|Ref=GEN_24:8!5|MId=o010240080052|Strong=1980|Frame=A0:010240080042;|Type=infinitive_construct 9-10 אַחֲרֶ֔יךָ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 9 אַחֲרֶ֔י אַחַר ADP _ _ 10 case _ Gloss=after|Ref=GEN_24:8!6|MId=o010240080061|Strong=0310 10 ךָ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 obl _ Gloss=you|Ref=GEN_24:8!6|MId=o010240080062|Strong=3509b|Type=pronominal 11-12 וְנִקִּ֕יתָ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 11 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 12 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_24:8!7|MId=o010240080071|Strong=2050b 12 נִקִּ֕יתָ נָקָה VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=NIPHAL|Number=Sing|Person=2 0 root _ Gloss=you.will.be.free|Ref=GEN_24:8!7|MId=o010240080072|Strong=5352|Frame=A1:010240050032;|Type=qatal 13-15 מִשְּׁבֻעָתִ֖י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 13 מִ מִן ADP _ _ 14 case _ Gloss=from|Ref=GEN_24:8!8|MId=o010240080081|Strong=4480 14 שְּׁבֻעָת שְׁבוּעָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 12 obl _ Gloss=oath|Ref=GEN_24:8!8|MId=o010240080082|Strong=7621 15 ִ֖י הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ Gloss=my|Ref=GEN_24:8!8|MId=o010240080083|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal 16 זֹ֑את זֹאת DET _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 14 det _ Gloss=this|Ref=GEN_24:8!9|MId=o010240080091|Strong=2063|Type=demonstrative 17 רַ֣ק רַק ADV _ _ 19 advmod _ Gloss=only|Ref=GEN_24:8!10|MId=o010240080101|Strong=7535|Type=affirmation 18 אֶת־ אֵת ADP _ _ 19 case _ Gloss=(et)|Ref=GEN_24:8!11|MId=o010240080111|Strong=0853|Type=direct_object_marker|SpaceAfter=No 19-20 בְּנִ֔י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 19 בְּנ בֵּן NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 22 obj _ Gloss=son|Ref=GEN_24:8!12|MId=o010240080121|Strong=1121 20 ִ֔י הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ Gloss=my|Ref=GEN_24:8!12|MId=o010240080122|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal 21 לֹ֥א לֹא ADV _ _ 22 advmod _ Gloss=not|Ref=GEN_24:8!13|MId=o010240080131|Strong=3808|Type=negative 22 תָשֵׁ֖ב שׁוּב VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=HIPHIL|Number=Sing|Person=2 12 parataxis _ Gloss=you.must.take.back|Ref=GEN_24:8!14|MId=o010240080141|Strong=7725|Frame=AA:010240050032;A0:010240080121;|Type=yiqtol 23-24 שָֽׁמָּה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 23 שָֽׁמּ שָׁם ADV _ _ 22 advmod _ Gloss=to|Ref=GEN_24:8!15|MId=o010240080151|Strong=8033 24 ָה ה X _ _ 23 nmod _ Gloss=(to)|Ref=GEN_24:8!15|MId=o010240080152|Strong=1886c|Type=directional_he 25 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 24 punct _ Ref=GEN_24:8!15 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - speech: inside a quote begun earlier - negation: yes | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | **not** תֹאבֶה *she will be willing* | yiqtol · qal | אִשָּׁה *woman* | | | | | לֶכֶת *go* | infinitive construct · qal | אִשָּׁה *woman* | | | | | נִקִּיתָ *you will be free* | qatal · niphal | | | | | | **not** תָשֵׁב *you must take back* | yiqtol · hiphil | בְּנ *son* | | | | 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} וְאִם לָא תֵיבֵי אִתְּתָא לְמֵיתֵי בַתְרָךְ וּתְהֵי זַכָּאָה מִמּוֹמָתִי דָּא לְחוֹד יָת בְּרִי לָא תָתֵב לְתַמָּן 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 if the woman be not willing to follow thee, then thou shalt be clear from this my oath; only thou shalt not bring my son back thither.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.628/) **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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