--- title: Genesis 12:3 (JPS 1917) — And I will bless them that bless thee, and him that curseth thee wil… · tree and pragmatics description: And I will bless them that bless thee, and him that curseth thee will I curse; and in thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed.' Who acts: I. 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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 (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:315 # text = And I will bless them that bless thee, and him that curseth thee will I curse; and in thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed.' 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 will will AUX MD _ 4 aux _ _ 4 bless bless VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 7 bless bless VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 8 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 7 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 11 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 12 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 13 curseth curse VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 14 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 13 obj _ _ 15 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 curse curse VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 30 obl _ _ 22 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 23 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 25 det:predet _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj:pass _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 29 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 30 aux:pass _ _ 30 blessed bless VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ 32 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: promise - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bless** | future | I | them *= they* | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 2 | **bless** | present | | thee | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme | | 3 | **curse** | present | | thee | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme | | 4 | **curse** | future | I | LORD | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 5 | **bless** | shall · passive | | all families of the earth | | thee | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | 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} וַאֲבָֽרֲכָה֙ מְבָ֣רְכֶ֔יךָ וּמְקַלֶּלְךָ֖ אָאֹ֑ר וְנִבְרְכ֣וּ בְךָ֔ כֹּ֖ל מִשְׁפְּחֹ֥ת הָאֲדָמָֽה׃ [Genesis 12:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.12.3/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:315` 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 12:2 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.314/) - next →: [Genesis 12:4 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.316/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 12:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.12.3/)