--- title: Genesis 48:6 (JPS 1917) — And thy issue, that thou begettest after them, shall be thine; they… · tree and pragmatics description: And thy issue, that thou begettest after them, shall be thine; they shall be called after the name of their brethren in their inheritance. Who acts: thou, issue, thy, sons. Genesis 48:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1581/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Torah](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/) / [Genesis](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/) / [chapter 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/48/) / [48:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.48.6/) / JPS 1 # Genesis 48:6 · JPS 1917 And thy issue, that thou begettest after them, shall be thine; they shall be called after the name of their brethren in their inheritance. **Who acts:** thou, issue, thy, sons · **What happens:** beget, be, call, issue, name, inherit · **To what, where:** issue, thine, sons, brethren · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is Genesis 48:6 · 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 (thou, issue, thy, sons), 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:1581 # text = And thy issue, that thou begettest after them, shall be thine; they shall be called after the name of their brethren in their inheritance. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 2 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 issue issue NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 5 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 7 obj _ _ 6 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 7 nsubj _ _ 7 begettest beget VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 8 after after ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 11 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 13 cop _ _ 13 thine thy PRON PRP Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 0 root _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 15 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj:pass _ _ 16 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 17 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 18 aux:pass _ _ 18 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 parataxis _ _ 19 after after ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 brethren brethren NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 inheritance inheritance NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **beget** | present | thou | thy issue | | | after sons *= son* | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient | | 2 | **is a** | shall | thy issue | thine | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **call** | shall · passive | | sons *= son* | | | after the name of sons's brethren in sons's inheritance | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 4 | **issue** | | thy | | | | | | nom issue «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | | 5 | **name** | | | sons's brethren in sons's inheritance | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient | | 6 | **inherit** | | sons *= son* | | | | | | nom inheritance «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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} וּמוֹלַדְתְּךָ֛ אֲשֶׁר־הוֹלַ֥דְתָּ אַחֲרֵיהֶ֖ם לְךָ֣ יִהְי֑וּ עַ֣ל שֵׁ֧ם אֲחֵיהֶ֛ם יִקָּרְא֖וּ בְּנַחֲלָתָֽם׃ [Genesis 48:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.48.6/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:1581` 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 48:5 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1580/) - next →: [Genesis 48:7 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1582/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 48:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.48.6/)