--- title: Genesis 35:11 (JPS 1917) — Be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be… · tree and pragmatics description: Be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins; Who acts: you, nation, kings. 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The page gives the sentence's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, parsed by Mova and checked by a teacher model — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, nation, kings), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it. The original of the verse links back to its own tree and to the Targum. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = jps:GEN:1099 # text = Be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins; 1 Be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 2 cop _ _ 2 fruitful fruitful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 multiply multiply VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 5 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 nation nation NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 company company NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 nations nation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ _ 13 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 14 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 16 cop _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 2 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 kings king NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 20 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 22 out out ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 loins loin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT : _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: other - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | fruitful *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **multiply** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | shall | a nation and a company of nations | | | | | of thee | tree rules | | 4 | **come out** | shall | kings | thy loins | | | | | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient loin=Result | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. ## The Hebrew of this verse {#hebrew} וַיֹּאמֶר֩ ל֨וֹ אֱלֹהִ֜ים אֲנִ֨י אֵ֤ל שַׁדַּי֙ פְּרֵ֣ה וּרְבֵ֔ה גּ֛וֹי וּקְהַ֥ל גּוֹיִ֖ם יִהְיֶ֣ה מִמֶּ֑ךָּ וּמְלָכִ֖ים מֵחֲלָצֶ֥יךָ יֵצֵֽאוּ׃ [Genesis 35:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.35.11/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. [And God said unto him: 'I am God Almighty.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1098/) 2. **Be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins;** **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:1099` of Mova's parse database. **The tree and the speech act** come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter. - ← previous: [Genesis 35:11 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1098/) - next →: [Genesis 35:12 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1100/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 35:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.35.11/)