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title: Genesis 25:12 — Now these are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics
description: Now these are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, bore unto Abraham. Who acts: these, Hagar. Genesis 25:12 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Onkelos, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 25:12 בְּרֵאשִׁית

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**Who acts:** these, Hagar · **What happens:** be, bear · **To what, where:** generations

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This is Genesis 25:12 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 — these, Hagar — and what happens in the verse to generations, 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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וְאֵ֛לֶּה תֹּלְדֹ֥ת יִשְׁמָעֵ֖אל בֶּן־אַבְרָהָ֑ם אֲשֶׁ֨ר יָלְדָ֜ה הָגָ֧ר הַמִּצְרִ֛ית שִׁפְחַ֥ת שָׂרָ֖ה לְאַבְרָהָֽם׃

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[Now these are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, bore unto Abraham.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.708/)

## 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:670
# text = וְאֵ֛לֶּה תֹּלְדֹ֥ת יִשְׁמָעֵ֖אל בֶּן־אַבְרָהָ֑ם אֲשֶׁ֨ר יָלְדָ֜ה הָגָ֧ר הַמִּצְרִ֛ית שִׁפְחַ֥ת שָׂרָ֖ה לְאַבְרָהָֽם׃
# verse = GEN.25.12
1-2	וְאֵ֛לֶּה	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
1	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	2	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_25:12!1|MId=o010250120011|Strong=2050b
2	אֵ֛לֶּה	אֵלֶּה	PRON	_	Gender=Com|Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	0	root	_	Gloss=these|Ref=GEN_25:12!1|MId=o010250120012|Strong=0428|Type=demonstrative
3	תֹּלְדֹ֥ת	תּוֹלֵדוֹת	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	Gloss=[are].the.accounts|Ref=GEN_25:12!2|MId=o010250120021|Strong=8435
4	יִשְׁמָעֵ֖אל	יִשְׁמָעֵאל	PROPN	_	_	3	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=of.Ishmael|Ref=GEN_25:12!3|MId=o010250120031|Strong=3458
5	בֶּן־	בֵּן	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	4	appos	_	Gloss=the.son|Ref=GEN_25:12!4|MId=o010250120041|Strong=1121|SpaceAfter=No
6	אַבְרָהָ֑ם	אַבְרָהָם	PROPN	_	_	5	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=of.Abraham|Ref=GEN_25:12!5|MId=o010250120051|Strong=0085
7	אֲשֶׁ֨ר	אֲשֶׁר	SCONJ	_	_	8	mark	_	Gloss=whom|Ref=GEN_25:12!6|MId=o010250120061|Strong=0834|Type=relative
8	יָלְדָ֜ה	יָלַד	VERB	_	Gender=Fem|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3	4	acl:relcl	_	Gloss=she.bore|Ref=GEN_25:12!7|MId=o010250120071|Strong=3205|Frame=A0:010250120081;A1:010250120031;|Type=qatal
9	הָגָ֧ר	הָגָר	PROPN	_	_	8	nsubj	_	Gloss=Hagar|Ref=GEN_25:12!8|MId=o010250120081|Strong=1904
10-11	הַמִּצְרִ֛ית	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
10	הַ	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	11	det	_	Gloss=the|Ref=GEN_25:12!9|MId=o010250120091|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
11	מִּצְרִ֛ית	מִצְרִי	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	9	appos	_	Gloss=Egyptian|Ref=GEN_25:12!9|MId=o010250120092|Strong=4713|Type=gentilic
12	שִׁפְחַ֥ת	שִׁפְחָה	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	9	appos	_	Gloss=the.maidservant|Ref=GEN_25:12!10|MId=o010250120101|Strong=8198
13	שָׂרָ֖ה	שָׂרָה	PROPN	_	_	12	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=of.Sarah|Ref=GEN_25:12!11|MId=o010250120111|Strong=8283
14-15	לְאַבְרָהָֽם	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
14	לְ	לְ	ADP	_	_	15	case	_	Gloss=to|Ref=GEN_25:12!12|MId=o010250120121|Strong=3807a
15	אַבְרָהָֽם	אַבְרָהָם	PROPN	_	_	8	obl	_	Gloss=Abraham|Ref=GEN_25:12!12|MId=o010250120122|Strong=0085
16	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	_	15	punct	_	Ref=GEN_25:12!12
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| יָלְדָה *she bore* | qatal · qal | הָגָר *Hagar* | יִשְׁמָעֵאל *of Ishmael* |  |  |

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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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וְאִלֵּין תּוּלְדַת יִשְׁמָעֵאל בַּר אַבְרָהָם דִּי יְלֵידַת הָגָר מִצְרֵתָא אַמְתָא דְשָׂרָה לְאַבְרָהָם

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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. [Now these are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, bore unto Abraham.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.708/)

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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:670`.

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