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title: Genesis 18:6 (JPS 1917) — And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said: 'Make ready… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said: 'Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes.' Who acts: Abraham. Genesis 18:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 18:6 · JPS 1917

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And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said: 'Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes.'

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**Who acts:** Abraham · **What happens:** hasten, say, make, knead, measure · **To what, where:** tent, three measures, meal, cakes, fine meal · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Genesis 18:6 · 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 (Abraham), 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:446
# text = And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said: 'Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Abraham	Abraham	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hastened	hasten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	tent	tent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Sarah	Sarah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
14	Make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
15	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
16	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
17	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	measures	measure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	knead	knead	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
28	cakes	cake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
30	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	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 | **hasten** | past | Abraham |  |  | the tent |  | unto Sarah | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into tent=Destination |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Abraham *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **make** | infinitive |  | three measures of fine meal |  |  |  | quickly, ready *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset measure=Product |
| 4 | **knead** | infinitive |  | meal |  |  |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent it=Material |
| 5 | **make** | infinitive |  | cakes |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cake=Product |
| 6 | **measure** |  |  | fine meal |  |  |  |  | nom measure «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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וַיְמַהֵ֧ר אַבְרָהָ֛ם הָאֹ֖הֱלָה אֶל־שָׂרָ֑ה וַיֹּ֗אמֶר מַהֲרִ֞י שְׁלֹ֤שׁ סְאִים֙ קֶ֣מַח סֹ֔לֶת ל֖וּשִׁי וַעֲשִׂ֥י עֻגֽוֹת׃

[Genesis 18:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.18.6/)

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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:446` 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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