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title: Genesis 12:4 (JPS 1917) — So Abram went, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with hi… · tree and pragmatics
description: So Abram went, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him; and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran. Who acts: Abram, LORD, Lot. Genesis 12:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 12:4 · JPS 1917

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So Abram went, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him; and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.

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**Who acts:** Abram, LORD, Lot · **What happens:** go, speak, be, depart · **To what, where:** Haran · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Genesis 12:4 · 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 (Abram, LORD, Lot), 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:316
# text = So Abram went, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him; and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	Abram	Abram	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
10	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	Lot	Lot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
20	Abram	Abram	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
22	seventy	seventy	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	obl:unmarked	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	conj	_	_
25	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl:unmarked	_	_
26	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
27	when	when	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	departed	depart	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	_
30	out	out	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	Haran	Haran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **go** | past | Abram |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | past · perfect | the LORD |  |  |  |  | unto Abram | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **go** | past | Lot |  |  |  |  | with LORD | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with he=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **is** | past | Abram |  |  |  | year | seventy *obl:unmarked*; old *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **depart** | past | LORD |  |  | Haran |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme out haran=Initial\_Location |

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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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וַיֵּ֣לֶךְ אַבְרָ֗ם כַּאֲשֶׁ֨ר דִּבֶּ֤ר אֵלָיו֙ יְהוָ֔ה וַיֵּ֥לֶךְ אִתּ֖וֹ ל֑וֹט וְאַבְרָ֗ם בֶּן־חָמֵ֤שׁ שָׁנִים֙ וְשִׁבְעִ֣ים שָׁנָ֔ה בְּצֵאת֖וֹ מֵחָרָֽן׃

[Genesis 12:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.12.4/)

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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:316` 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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