--- title: Genesis 17:11 (JPS 1917) — And ye shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin; and it sh… · tree and pragmatics description: And ye shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of a covenant betwixt Me and you. Who acts: male. Genesis 17:11 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.424/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Torah](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/) / [Genesis](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/) / [chapter 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/17/) / [17:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.17.11/) / JPS 1 # Genesis 17:11 · JPS 1917 And ye shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of a covenant betwixt Me and you. **Who acts:** male · **What happens:** circumcise, be · **To what, where:** ye, flesh, token This is Genesis 17:11 · 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 (male), 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:424 # text = And ye shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of a covenant betwixt Me and you. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 2 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 circumcised circumcise VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 flesh flesh NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 foreskin foreskin NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 15 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 16 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 18 cop _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 token token NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 covenant covenant NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 22 betwixt betwixt ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 Me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 nmod _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 23 conj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: promise - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=character, polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **circumcise** | shall · passive | | ye | | the flesh of your foreskin | | | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | | 2 | **is a** | shall | male | a token | | | | of a covenant betwixt Me | 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} וּנְמַלְתֶּ֕ם אֵ֖ת בְּשַׂ֣ר עָרְלַתְכֶ֑ם וְהָיָה֙ לְא֣וֹת בְּרִ֔ית בֵּינִ֖י וּבֵינֵיכֶֽם׃ [Genesis 17:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.17.11/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:424` 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 17:10 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.423/) - next →: [Genesis 17:12 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.425/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 17:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.17.11/)