--- title: Genesis 17:16 (JPS 1917) — And I will bless her, and moreover I will give thee a son of her; ye… · tree and pragmatics description: And I will bless her, and moreover I will give thee a son of her; yea, I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of peoples shall be of her.' Who acts: I, name, kings. 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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 (I, name, kings), 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:429 # text = And I will bless her, and moreover I will give thee a son of her; yea, I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of peoples shall be of her.' 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 bless bless VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 8 moreover moreover ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 9 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 10 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 12 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 11 iobj _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nmod _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 18 yea yea INTJ UH _ 22 discourse _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 20 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 bless bless VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 23 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 26 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 27 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 28 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 30 cop _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 nations nation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nmod _ _ 33 ; ; PUNCT : _ 40 punct _ _ 34 kings king NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nsubj _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 peoples people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nmod _ _ 37 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 38 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 40 cop _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 parataxis _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ 42 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: promise - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=promise | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bless** | future | I | name | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | | 2 | **give** | future | I | a son of name | thee | | | moreover *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient son=Theme | | 3 | **bless** | future | I | name | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | | 4 | **is a** | shall | name | a mother | | | | of nations | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | shall | kings of peoples | | | | | of name | 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} וּבֵרַכְתִּ֣י אֹתָ֔הּ וְגַ֨ם נָתַ֧תִּי מִמֶּ֛נָּה לְךָ֖ בֵּ֑ן וּבֵֽרַכְתִּ֙יהָ֙ וְהָֽיְתָ֣ה לְגוֹיִ֔ם מַלְכֵ֥י עַמִּ֖ים מִמֶּ֥נָּה יִהְיֽוּ׃ [Genesis 17:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.17.16/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:429` 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 17:15 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.428/) - next →: [Genesis 17:17 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.430/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 17:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.17.16/)