--- title: Genesis 17:5 (JPS 1917) — Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall… · tree and pragmatics description: Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for the father of a multitude of nations have I made thee. Who acts: name, I, thy. 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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 (name, I, thy), 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:418 # text = Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for the father of a multitude of nations have I made thee. 1 Neither neither ADV RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 2 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 3 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj:pass _ _ 5 any any ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 8 advmod _ _ 7 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 8 aux:pass _ _ 8 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 9 Abram Abram PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 xcomp _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 11 but but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 12 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 14 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 15 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 16 cop _ _ 16 Abraham Abraham PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 18 for for SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 multitude multitude NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 nations nation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nmod _ _ 26 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 27 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 8 conj _ _ 29 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 28 obj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** | shall · passive | | thy name | | | | neither *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 2 | **is a** | shall | thy name | Abraham | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **make** | present · perfect | I | thee | the father of a multitude of nations | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset father=Beneficiary thou=Product | | 4 | **name** | | thy | | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | | 5 | **name** | | thy | | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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} וְלֹא־יִקָּרֵ֥א ע֛וֹד אֶת־שִׁמְךָ֖ אַבְרָ֑ם וְהָיָ֤ה שִׁמְךָ֙ אַבְרָהָ֔ם כִּ֛י אַב־הֲמ֥וֹן גּוֹיִ֖ם נְתַתִּֽיךָ׃ [Genesis 17:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.17.5/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:418` 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 17:4 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.417/) - next →: [Genesis 17:6 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.419/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 17:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.17.5/)