--- title: Genesis 12:11 (JPS 1917) — And it came to pass, when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that… · tree and pragmatics description: And it came to pass, when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said unto Sarai his wife: 'Behold now, I know that thou art a fair woman to look upon. Who acts: famine, Abram, I, thou. 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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 (famine, Abram, I, thou), 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:324 # text = And it came to pass, when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said unto Sarai his wife: 'Behold now, I know that thou art a fair woman to look upon. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 pass pass VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 when when SCONJ WRB _ 10 mark _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 come come VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 11 near near ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 enter enter VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 advcl _ _ 14 into into ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 Egypt Egypt PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 that that SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 20 unto unto ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 Sarai Sarai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 22 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 appos _ _ 24 : : PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 25 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ _ 26 Behold behold INTJ UH _ 30 discourse _ _ 27 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 30 advmod _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 29 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 ccomp _ _ 31 that that SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 32 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 36 nsubj _ _ 33 art be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 ccomp _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 acl _ _ 39 upon upon ADP IN _ 38 obl _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: pos - teacher: changed polarity=pos, act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | famine | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **pass** | to-infinitive | famine *not said here* | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **come** | past · passive | Abram | | | | | near *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **enter** | to-infinitive | Abram *not said here* | | | Egypt | | | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into egypt=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Abram | | | | | unto Sarai | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **know** | present | I | | | | now | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **is a** | present | thou | a fair woman | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **look** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | 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} וַיְהִ֕י כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר הִקְרִ֖יב לָב֣וֹא מִצְרָ֑יְמָה וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ אֶל־שָׂרַ֣י אִשְׁתּ֔וֹ הִנֵּה־נָ֣א יָדַ֔עְתִּי כִּ֛י אִשָּׁ֥ה יְפַת־מַרְאֶ֖ה אָֽתְּ׃ [Genesis 12:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.12.11/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:324` 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 12:10 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.323/) - next →: [Genesis 12:12 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.325/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 12:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.12.11/)