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title: Genesis 16:9 (JPS 1917) — And the angel of the LORD said unto her: 'Return to thy mistress, an… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the angel of the LORD said unto her: 'Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.' Who acts: angel. Genesis 16:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 16:9 · JPS 1917

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And the angel of the LORD said unto her: 'Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.'

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**Who acts:** angel · **What happens:** say, return, submit · **To what, where:** thyself, hands · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Genesis 16:9 · 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 (angel), 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:406
# text = And the angel of the LORD said unto her: 'Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	angel	angel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	mistress	mistress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	submit	submit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
19	thyself	thyself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes|Style=Arch	18	obj	_	_
20	under	under	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
24	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the angel of the LORD |  |  |  |  | unto Abram | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **return** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | to thy mistress *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to mistress=Result |
| 3 | **submit** | infinitive |  | thyself |  | Abram's hands |  |  | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent thyself=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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וַיֹּ֤אמֶר לָהּ֙ מַלְאַ֣ךְ יְהוָ֔ה שׁ֖וּבִי אֶל־גְּבִרְתֵּ֑ךְ וְהִתְעַנִּ֖י תַּ֥חַת יָדֶֽיהָ׃

[Genesis 16:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.16.9/)

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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:406` 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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