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title: Genesis 48:16 (JPS 1917) — the angel who hath redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and le… · tree and pragmatics
description: the angel who hath redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named in them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.' Who acts: angel, name, Abraham, my. Genesis 48:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the 
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# Genesis 48:16 · JPS 1917

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the angel who hath redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named in them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.'

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**Who acts:** angel, name, Abraham, my · **What happens:** redeem, bless, let, name, grow · **To what, where:** me, evil, lads, name, Abraham, multitude

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This is Genesis 48:16 · 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 (angel, name, Abraham, my), 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:1592
# text = the angel who hath redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named in them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.'
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	angel	angel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
4	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	redeemed	redeem	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	bless	bless	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	lads	lad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	xcomp	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	fathers	father	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
30	Abraham	Abraham	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	appos	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	Isaac	Isaac	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
33	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
36	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	_
37	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	xcomp	_	_
38	into	into	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	multitude	multitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
41	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
48	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed form=imp, act=request

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **redeem** | present · perfect | the angel | me |  | all evil |  |  | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent i=Theme from evil=Source |
| 2 | **bless** | infinitive | the angel | the lads |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lad=Theme |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive | the angel *not said here* | my name and the name of my fathers |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **name** | infinitive · passive | my name and the name of my fathers *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in lads *= lad* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP» |
| 5 | **let** | infinitive | the angel *not said here* | Abraham |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **grow** | infinitive | Abraham *not said here* |  |  | a multitude |  | in the midst of the earth | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in midst=Location |
| 7 | **name** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 8 | **name** |  |  | my fathers |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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הַמַּלְאָךְ֩ הַגֹּאֵ֨ל אֹתִ֜י מִכָּל־רָ֗ע יְבָרֵךְ֮ אֶת־הַנְּעָרִים֒ וְיִקָּרֵ֤א בָהֶם֙ שְׁמִ֔י וְשֵׁ֥ם אֲבֹתַ֖י אַבְרָהָ֣ם וְיִצְחָ֑ק וְיִדְגּ֥וּ לָרֹ֖ב בְּקֶ֥רֶב הָאָֽרֶץ׃

[Genesis 48:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.48.16/)

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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:1592` 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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