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title: Genesis 18:5 (JPS 1917) — And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and stay ye your heart; after th… · tree and pragmatics
description: And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and stay ye your heart; after that ye shall pass on; forasmuch as ye are come to your servant.' And they said: 'So do, as thou hast said.' Who acts: I, ye, feet, thou. Genesis 18:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 18:5 · JPS 1917

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And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and stay ye your heart; after that ye shall pass on; forasmuch as ye are come to your servant.' And they said: 'So do, as thou hast said.'

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**Who acts:** I, ye, feet, thou · **What happens:** fetch, stay, pass on, come, say, do · **To what, where:** morsel, heart, servant · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Genesis 18:5 · 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, ye, feet, thou), 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:445
# text = And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and stay ye your heart; after that ye shall pass on; forasmuch as ye are come to your servant.' And they said: 'So do, as thou hast said.'
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	_	4	aux	_	_
4	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	_	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	morsel	morsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
12	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	nsubj	_	_
13	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
16	after	after	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	obl	_	_
18	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	20	nsubj	_	_
19	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
23	forasmuch	forasmuch	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
24	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	fixed	_	_
25	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	27	nsubj	_	_
26	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
32	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
33	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
36	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	_
37	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	39	punct	_	_
38	So	so	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	ccomp	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
41	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
42	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	44	nsubj	_	_
43	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
44	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	39	advcl	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	39	punct	_	_
46	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fetch** | future | I | a morsel of bread |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent morsel=Theme |
| 2 | **stay** | infinitive | ye | your heart |  |  |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme heart=Location |
| 3 | **pass on** | shall | ye |  |  |  | after that |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **come** | present · passive | ye |  |  | your servant |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to servant=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | feet *= foot* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **do** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · perfect | thou |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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וְאֶקְחָ֨ה פַת־לֶ֜חֶם וְסַעֲד֤וּ לִבְּכֶם֙ אַחַ֣ר תַּעֲבֹ֔רוּ כִּֽי־עַל־כֵּ֥ן עֲבַרְתֶּ֖ם עַֽל־עַבְדְּכֶ֑ם וַיֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ כֵּ֥ן תַּעֲשֶׂ֖ה כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר דִּבַּֽרְתָּ׃

[Genesis 18:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.18.5/)

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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:445` 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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