--- title: Genesis 18:17 (JPS 1917) — And the LORD said: 'Shall I hide from Abraham that which I am doing; · tree and pragmatics description: And the LORD said: 'Shall I hide from Abraham that which I am doing; Who acts: LORD, I. Genesis 18:17 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.459/) [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/) / [18:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.18.17/) / JPS 1 # Genesis 18:17 · JPS 1917 And the LORD said: 'Shall I hide from Abraham that which I am doing; **Who acts:** LORD, I · **What happens:** say, hide, do · **To what, where:** that, Abraham · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is Genesis 18:17 · 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 (LORD, I), 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:459 # text = And the LORD said: 'Shall I hide from Abraham that which I am doing; 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 6 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 7 Shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 8 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 hide hide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 ccomp _ _ 10 from from ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 Abraham Abraham PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 12 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 9 obj _ _ 13 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 obj _ _ 14 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 doing do VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 acl:relcl _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: ask - voice: character - polarity: none - indirect: yes - teacher: changed form=q, act=ask, indirect=1 | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the LORD | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **hide** | shall | I | that | | Abraham | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent that=Patient from abraham=Beneficiary | | 3 | **do** | present · progressive | I | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality | 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} וַֽיהֹוָ֖ה אָמָ֑ר הַֽמְכַסֶּ֤ה אֲנִי֙ מֵֽאַבְרָהָ֔ם אֲשֶׁ֖ר אֲנִ֥י עֹשֶֽׂה׃ [Genesis 18:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.18.17/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:459` 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 18:16 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.458/) - next →: [Genesis 18:18 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.460/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 18:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.18.17/)