--- title: Genesis 17:1 (JPS 1917) — And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to A… · tree and pragmatics description: And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him: 'I am God Almighty; walk before Me, and be thou wholehearted. Who acts: Abram, LORD, I, thou. 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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, LORD, I, thou), 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:414 # text = And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him: 'I am God Almighty; walk before Me, and be thou wholehearted. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 2 when when SCONJ WRB _ 7 mark _ _ 3 Abram Abram PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 ninety ninety NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl:unmarked _ _ 7 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 advcl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 nine nine NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 conj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 appeared appear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 Abram Abram PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 19 unto unto ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 iobj _ _ 21 : : PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 22 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ _ 23 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 25 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 ccomp _ _ 26 Almighty almighty PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 flat _ _ 27 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 28 walk walk VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 29 before before ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 Me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 obl _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 33 be be AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 34 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 35 nsubj _ _ 35 wholehearted wholehearted ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 conj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | Abram | | | | year | old *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **appear** | past | the LORD | | Abram | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the LORD *not said here* | | Abram | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Topic | | 4 | **is a** | present | I | God | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **walk** | infinitive | the LORD *not said here* | | | | before Me | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before i=Trajectory | | 6 | **is** | infinitive | thou | | | | | wholehearted *property* | 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} וַיְהִ֣י אַבְרָ֔ם בֶּן־תִּשְׁעִ֥ים שָׁנָ֖ה וְתֵ֣שַׁע שָׁנִ֑ים וַיֵּרָ֨א יְהוָ֜ה אֶל־אַבְרָ֗ם וַיֹּ֤אמֶר אֵלָיו֙ אֲנִי־אֵ֣ל שַׁדַּ֔י הִתְהַלֵּ֥ךְ לְפָנַ֖י וֶהְיֵ֥ה תָמִֽים׃ [Genesis 17:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.17.1/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:414` 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 16:16 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.413/) - next →: [Genesis 17:2 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.415/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 17:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.17.1/)