--- title: Genesis 17:10 (JPS 1917) — This is My covenant, which ye shall keep, between Me and you and thy… · tree and pragmatics description: This is My covenant, which ye shall keep, between Me and you and thy seed after thee: every male among you shall be circumcised. Who acts: This, ye. 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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 (This, ye), 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:423 # text = This is My covenant, which ye shall keep, between Me and you and thy seed after thee: every male among you shall be circumcised. 1 This this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 4 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 covenant covenant NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 9 obj _ _ 7 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 9 nsubj _ _ 8 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 acl:relcl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 between between ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 Me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nmod _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 conj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 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 12 conj _ _ 18 after after ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 17 nmod _ _ 20 : : PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 21 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 22 det _ _ 22 male male NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj:pass _ _ 23 among among ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 22 nmod _ _ 25 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 26 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 27 aux:pass _ _ 27 circumcised circumcise VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 parataxis _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: promise - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | This | My covenant | | | | between Me | tree rules | | 2 | **keep** | shall | ye | My covenant | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme | | 3 | **circumcise** | shall · passive | | every male among you | | | | | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | 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} זֹ֣את בְּרִיתִ֞י אֲשֶׁ֣ר תִּשְׁמְר֗וּ בֵּינִי֙ וּבֵ֣ינֵיכֶ֔ם וּבֵ֥ין זַרְעֲךָ֖ אַחֲרֶ֑יךָ הִמּ֥וֹל לָכֶ֖ם כָּל־זָכָֽר׃ [Genesis 17:10: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.17.10/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:423` 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 17:9 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.422/) - next →: [Genesis 17:11 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.424/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 17:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.17.10/)