--- title: Genesis 15:2 (JPS 1917) — And Abram said: 'O Lord GOD, what wilt Thou give me, seeing I go hen… · tree and pragmatics description: And Abram said: 'O Lord GOD, what wilt Thou give me, seeing I go hence childless, and he that shall be possessor of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?' Who acts: Abram, Thou, 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 (Abram, Thou, 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:378 # text = And Abram said: 'O Lord GOD, what wilt Thou give me, seeing I go hence childless, and he that shall be possessor of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?' 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 Abram Abram PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 : : PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 5 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 6 O o INTJ UH _ 8 discourse _ _ 7 Lord Lord PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 GOD GOD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 vocative _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 13 obj _ _ 11 wilt will AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 13 nsubj _ _ 13 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 ccomp _ _ 14 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 iobj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 seeing see VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 advcl _ _ 17 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 ccomp _ _ 19 hence hence ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 20 childless childless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 xcomp _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 24 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 27 nsubj _ _ 25 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 26 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 27 cop _ _ 27 possessor possessor NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 acl:relcl _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 31 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 32 Eliezer Eliezer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 Damascus Damascus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 35 ? ? PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ 36 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: ask - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed indirect=0 | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Abram | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **give** | future | Thou | | me | | | Lord GOD *vocative* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient what=Theme | | 3 | **see** | gerund | Thou *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 4 | **go** | present | I | | | | | childless, hence *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is a** | shall | | possessor | | | | of my house | tree rules | | 6 | **is a** | present | Abram | Eliezer | | | | of Damascus | tree rules | 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} וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אַבְרָ֗ם אֲדֹנָ֤י יֱהוִה֙ מַה־תִּתֶּן־לִ֔י וְאָנֹכִ֖י הוֹלֵ֣ךְ עֲרִירִ֑י וּבֶן־מֶ֣שֶׁק בֵּיתִ֔י ה֖וּא דַּמֶּ֥שֶׂק אֱלִיעֶֽזֶר׃ [Genesis 15:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.15.2/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:378` 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 15:1 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.377/) - next →: [Genesis 15:3 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.379/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 15:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.15.2/)