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title: Genesis 17:12 (JPS 1917) — And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every… · tree and pragmatics
description: And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every male throughout your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any foreigner, that is not of thy seed. Who acts: foreigner. Genesis 17:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Genesis 17:12 · JPS 1917

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And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every male throughout your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any foreigner, that is not of thy seed.

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**Who acts:** foreigner · **What happens:** be, circumcise, bear, buy, not be · **To what, where:** God, house

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This is Genesis 17:12 · 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 (foreigner), 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:425
# text = And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every male throughout your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any foreigner, that is not of thy seed.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	acl:relcl	_	_
8	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	circumcised	circumcise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	among	among	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	male	male	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
16	throughout	throughout	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	generations	generation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	appos	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl:relcl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	bought	buy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	conj	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	34	det	_	_
34	foreigner	foreigner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
36	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	41	nsubj	_	_
37	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
38	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	41	advmod	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	acl:relcl	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  | day | old *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **circumcise** | shall · passive |  | God |  |  |  | among you | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **bear** | present · passive |  |  |  | the house |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **buy** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with money of any foreigner | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **not** **is** | present | any foreigner |  |  |  |  | of thy seed | tree rules |

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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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וּבֶן־שְׁמֹנַ֣ת יָמִ֗ים יִמּ֥וֹל לָכֶ֛ם כָּל־זָכָ֖ר לְדֹרֹתֵיכֶ֑ם יְלִ֣יד בָּ֔יִת וּמִקְנַת־כֶּ֙סֶף֙ מִכֹּ֣ל בֶּן־נֵכָ֔ר אֲשֶׁ֛ר לֹ֥א מִֽזַּרְעֲךָ֖ הֽוּא׃

[Genesis 17:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.17.12/)

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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:425` 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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