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title: Genesis 48:4 (JPS 1917) — and said unto me: Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply th… · tree and pragmatics
description: and said unto me: Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a company of peoples; and will give this land to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession. Who acts: I. Genesis 48:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 48:4 · JPS 1917

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and said unto me: Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a company of peoples; and will give this land to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** say, make, multiply, give · **To what, where:** thee, company, land, seed · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Genesis 48:4 · JPS 1917 in the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, from Mova's open Bible corpus. 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 (I), 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:1579
# text = and said unto me: Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a company of peoples; and will give this land to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession.
1	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
6	Behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
11	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	obj	_	_
12	fruitful	fruitful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	multiply	multiply	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
16	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	21	obl	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	peoples	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
32	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	33	det	_	_
33	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
37	after	after	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	36	nmod	_	_
39	for	for	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	everlasting	everlasting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	possession	possession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: promise
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  | unto me | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **make** | future | I | thee |  |  |  | fruitful *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Product |
| 3 | **multiply** | infinitive | I *not said here* | thee |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | future | I | a company of peoples |  |  |  | of thee | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent company=Product |
| 5 | **give** | future | I *not said here* | this land | thy seed after thee |  |  | for a everlasting possession | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent land=Theme to seed=Recipient for possession=Asset |

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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}

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וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֵלַ֗י הִנְנִ֤י מַפְרְךָ֙ וְהִרְבִּיתִ֔ךָ וּנְתַתִּ֖יךָ לִקְהַ֣ל עַמִּ֑ים וְנָ֨תַתִּ֜י אֶת־הָאָ֧רֶץ הַזֹּ֛את לְזַרְעֲךָ֥ אַחֲרֶ֖יךָ אֲחֻזַּ֥ת עוֹלָֽם׃

[Genesis 48:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.48.4/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:1579` 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.

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