--- title: Genesis 12:7 (JPS 1917) — And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said: 'Unto thy seed will I gi… · tree and pragmatics description: And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said: 'Unto thy seed will I give this land'; and he builded there an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him. Who acts: LORD, 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 (LORD, 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:320 # text = And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said: 'Unto thy seed will I give this land'; and he builded there an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 appeared appear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 unto unto ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Abram Abram PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 11 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ _ 12 Unto unto ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 seed seed NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 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 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 ccomp _ _ 18 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 19 det _ _ 19 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 builded build VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 25 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 24 advmod _ _ 26 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 altar altar NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 28 unto unto ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 33 nsubj _ _ 33 appeared appear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 acl:relcl _ _ 34 unto unto ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=narrate, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **appear** | past | the LORD | | | | | unto Abram | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the LORD *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **give** | future | I | this land | | | | unto thy seed | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Theme | | 4 | **build** | past | LORD | a altar | | there | | unto the LORD | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent altar=Product | | 5 | **appear** | past | the LORD | | | | | unto LORD | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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} וַיֵּרָ֤א יְהוָה֙ אֶל־אַבְרָ֔ם וַיֹּ֕אמֶר לְזַ֨רְעֲךָ֔ אֶתֵּ֖ן אֶת־הָאָ֣רֶץ הַזֹּ֑את וַיִּ֤בֶן שָׁם֙ מִזְבֵּ֔חַ לַיהוָ֖ה הַנִּרְאֶ֥ה אֵלָֽיו׃ [Genesis 12:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.12.7/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:320` 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 12:6 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.319/) - next →: [Genesis 12:8 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.321/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 12:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.12.7/)