--- title: Genesis 18:3 (JPS 1917) — and said: 'My lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass no… · tree and pragmatics description: and said: 'My lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant. Who acts: I, thy. Genesis 18:3 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.443/) [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 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/18/) / [18:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.18.3/) / JPS 1 # Genesis 18:3 · JPS 1917 and said: 'My lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant. **Who acts:** I, thy · **What happens:** say, find, not pass away, pray, sight · **To what, where:** favour, sight, thee, servant · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is Genesis 18:3 · 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 (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:443 # text = and said: 'My lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant. 1 and and CCONJ CC _ 2 cc _ _ 2 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 : : PUNCT : _ 2 punct _ _ 4 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 5 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 lord lord NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 vocative _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 8 if if SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 9 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 12 advmod _ _ 10 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 18 advcl _ _ 13 favour favour NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 pass pass VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 19 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 20 away away ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 pray pray VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 parataxis _ _ 24 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 23 obj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 from from ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 servant servant NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **find** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · perfect | I | favour | | thy sight | now | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent favour=Topic | | 3 | **not** **pass away** | infinitive | | | | | | My lord *vocative*; away *property* | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **pray** | present | I | thee | | thy servant | | | tree rules | | 5 | **sight** | | thy | | | | | | nom sight «cognition 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} וַיֹּאמַ֑ר אֲדֹנָ֗י אִם־נָ֨א מָצָ֤אתִי חֵן֙ בְּעֵינֶ֔יךָ אַל־נָ֥א תַעֲבֹ֖ר מֵעַ֥ל עַבְדֶּֽךָ׃ [Genesis 18:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.18.3/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:443` 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 18:2 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.442/) - next →: [Genesis 18:4 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.444/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 18:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.18.3/)