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title: Genesis 14:12 (JPS 1917) — And they took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who dwelt in Sodom, and hi… · tree and pragmatics
description: And they took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed. Who acts: pits, son. Genesis 14:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 14:12 · JPS 1917

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And they took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.

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**Who acts:** pits, son · **What happens:** take, dwell, depart · **To what, where:** Lot, Sodom

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This is Genesis 14:12 · 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 (pits, son), 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:364
# text = And they took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Lot	Lot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	Abram	Abram	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	_
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	dwelt	dwell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Sodom	Sodom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	goods	goods	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	4	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	departed	depart	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **take** | past | pits *= pit* |  | Lot and Sodom's goods |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument lot=Destination |
| 2 | **dwell** | past | Abram's son |  |  | Sodom |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sodom=Location |
| 3 | **depart** | past | pits *= pit* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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וַיִּקְח֨וּ אֶת־ל֧וֹט וְאֶת־רְכֻשׁ֛וֹ בֶּן־אֲחִ֥י אַבְרָ֖ם וַיֵּלֵ֑כוּ וְה֥וּא יֹשֵׁ֖ב בִּסְדֹֽם׃

[Genesis 14:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.14.12/)

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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:364` 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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