--- title: Genesis 18:18 (JPS 1917) — seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, a… · tree and pragmatics description: seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him? Who acts: Abraham. Genesis 18:18 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.460/) [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/) / [18:18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.18.18/) / JPS 1 # Genesis 18:18 · JPS 1917 seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him? **Who acts:** Abraham · **What happens:** see, become, bless · **To what, where:** great nation, nations This is Genesis 18:18 · 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:460 # text = seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him? 1 seeing see VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 that that SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 3 Abraham Abraham PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 surely surely ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 become become VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 advcl _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 8 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 mighty mighty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 conj _ _ 11 nation nation NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 xcomp _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 14 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 16 det:predet _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 nations nation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj:pass _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 20 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 21 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 blessed bless VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 conj _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obl _ _ 25 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: ask - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=ask, voice=character, polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | gerund | | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **become** | shall | Abraham | a great nation | | | | surely *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **bless** | shall · passive | | all nations of the earth | | | | in Abraham | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | 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} וְאַ֨בְרָהָ֔ם הָי֧וֹ יִֽהְיֶ֛ה לְג֥וֹי גָּד֖וֹל וְעָצ֑וּם וְנִ֨בְרְכוּ ב֔וֹ כֹּ֖ל גּוֹיֵ֥י הָאָֽרֶץ׃ [Genesis 18:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.18.18/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:460` 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 18:17 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.459/) - next →: [Genesis 18:19 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.461/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 18:18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.18.18/)