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title: Genesis 12:8 (JPS 1917) — And he removed from thence unto the mountain on the east of Beth-el,… · tree and pragmatics
description: And he removed from thence unto the mountain on the east of Beth-el, and pitched his tent, having Beth-el on the west, and Ai on the east; and he builded there an altar unto the LORD, and called upon the name of the LORD. Who acts: LORD. Genesis 12:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Genesis 12:8 · JPS 1917

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And he removed from thence unto the mountain on the east of Beth-el, and pitched his tent, having Beth-el on the west, and Ai on the east; and he builded there an altar unto the LORD, and called upon the name of the LORD.

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**Who acts:** LORD · **What happens:** remove, pitch, have, build, call, name · **To what, where:** thence, tent, Beth el, west, altar, LORD · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Genesis 12:8 · 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 (LORD), 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:321
# text = And he removed from thence unto the mountain on the east of Beth-el, and pitched his tent, having Beth-el on the west, and Ai on the east; and he builded there an altar unto the LORD, and called upon the name of the LORD.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	removed	remove	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	thence	thence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Beth	Beth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	_
15	el	el	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	pitched	pitch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	tent	tent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
23	Beth	Beth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	_
25	el	el	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	west	west	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	Ai	Ai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
32	on	on	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
35	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	38	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	builded	build	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
39	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	38	advmod	_	_
40	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	altar	altar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
42	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	conj	_	_
48	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	nmod	_	_
54	.	.	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 | **remove** | past | LORD |  |  | thence |  | unto the mountain; on the east of Beth | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from thence=Source |
| 2 | **pitch** | past | LORD *not said here* | LORD's tent |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tent=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | gerund | LORD *not said here* | Beth el and Ai on the east |  | the west |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent el=Patient |
| 4 | **build** | past | LORD | a altar |  | there |  | unto the LORD | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent altar=Product |
| 5 | **call** | past | LORD *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upon the name of the LORD | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **name** |  |  | the LORD |  |  |  |  | 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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וַיַּעְתֵּ֨ק מִשָּׁ֜ם הָהָ֗רָה מִקֶּ֛דֶם לְבֵֽית־אֵ֖לבֵֽית־אֵ֖ל וַיֵּ֣ט אָהֳלֹ֑הבֵּֽית־אֵ֤לבֵּֽית־אֵ֤ל מִיָּם֙ וְהָעַ֣י מִקֶּ֔דֶם וַיִּֽבֶן־שָׁ֤ם מִזְבֵּ֙חַ֙ לַֽיהוָ֔ה וַיִּקְרָ֖א בְּשֵׁ֥ם יְהוָֽה׃

[Genesis 12:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.12.8/)

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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:321` 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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