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title: Genesis 16:10 (JPS 1917) — And the angel of the LORD said unto her: 'I will greatly multiply th… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the angel of the LORD said unto her: 'I will greatly multiply thy seed, that it shall not be numbered for multitude. Who acts: angel, I. Genesis 16:10 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 16:10 · JPS 1917

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And the angel of the LORD said unto her: 'I will greatly multiply thy seed, that it shall not be numbered for multitude.

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**Who acts:** angel, I · **What happens:** say, multiply, not number · **To what, where:** seed · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Genesis 16:10 · 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, 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:407
# text = And the angel of the LORD said unto her: 'I will greatly multiply thy seed, that it shall not be numbered for multitude.
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	:	_	7	punct	_	_
11	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	multiply	multiply	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
16	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	numbered	number	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	advcl	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	multitude	multitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: promise
- 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 | **multiply** | future | I | thy seed |  |  |  | greatly *property* | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **number** | shall · passive |  | seed |  |  |  | for multitude | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: subject=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 הַרְבָּ֥ה אַרְבֶּ֖ה אֶת־זַרְעֵ֑ךְ וְלֹ֥א יִסָּפֵ֖ר מֵרֹֽב׃

[Genesis 16:10: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.16.10/)

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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:407` 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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