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title: Genesis 18:26 (JPS 1917) — And the LORD said: 'If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the ci… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the LORD said: 'If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will forgive all the place for their sake.' Who acts: LORD, I. Genesis 18:26 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 18:26 · JPS 1917

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And the LORD said: 'If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will forgive all the place for their sake.'

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**Who acts:** LORD, I · **What happens:** say, find, forgive · **To what, where:** fifty righteous, Sodom, place · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Genesis 18:26 · 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:468
# text = And the LORD said: 'If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will forgive all the place for their sake.'
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	:	_	21	punct	_	_
6	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
7	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Sodom	Sodom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	righteous	righteous	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
14	within	within	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
18	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	forgive	forgive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
22	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	24	det:predet	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	sake	sake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
29	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: promise
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=promise

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| # | 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 | **find** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | I | fifty righteous |  | Sodom |  | within the city | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent righteous=Topic |
| 3 | **forgive** | future | I | all place |  |  | then | for women's sake | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent place=Theme for sake=Attribute |

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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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וַיֹּ֣אמֶר יְהוָ֔ה אִם־אֶמְצָ֥א בִסְדֹ֛ם חֲמִשִּׁ֥ים צַדִּיקִ֖ם בְּת֣וֹךְ הָעִ֑יר וְנָשָׂ֥אתִי לְכָל־הַמָּק֖וֹם בַּעֲבוּרָֽם׃

[Genesis 18:26: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.18.26/)

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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:468` 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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