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title: Genesis 15:3 (JPS 1917) — And Abram said: 'Behold, to me Thou hast given no seed, and, lo, one… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Abram said: 'Behold, to me Thou hast given no seed, and, lo, one born in my house is to be mine heir.' Who acts: Abram, Thou, one. Genesis 15:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 15:3 · JPS 1917

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And Abram said: 'Behold, to me Thou hast given no seed, and, lo, one born in my house is to be mine heir.'

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**Who acts:** Abram, Thou, one · **What happens:** say, give, bear, be · **To what, where:** seed, me, house, heir · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Genesis 15:3 · 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 (Abram, Thou, one), 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:379
# text = And Abram said: 'Behold, to me Thou hast given no seed, and, lo, one born in my house is to be mine heir.'
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	:	_	12	punct	_	_
5	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
6	Behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
10	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	nsubj	_	_
11	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	ccomp	_	_
13	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	14	det	_	_
14	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	lo	lo	INTJ	UH	_	29	discourse	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nsubj	_	_
21	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	cop	_	_
28	mine	mine	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	heir	heir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
31	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=decl, act=assert

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| # | 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 that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **give** | present · perfect | Thou | no seed | me |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent seed=Theme to i=Recipient |
| 3 | **bear** | participle |  |  |  | my house |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is a** | present | one | mine heir |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אַבְרָ֔ם הֵ֣ן לִ֔י לֹ֥א נָתַ֖תָּה זָ֑רַע וְהִנֵּ֥ה בֶן־בֵּיתִ֖י יוֹרֵ֥שׁ אֹתִֽי׃

[Genesis 15:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.15.3/)

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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:379` 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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