--- title: Genesis 18:29 (JPS 1917) — And he spoke unto Him yet again, and said: 'Peradventure there shall… · tree and pragmatics description: And he spoke unto Him yet again, and said: 'Peradventure there shall be forty found there.' And He said: 'I will not do it for the forty's sake.' Who acts: righteous, forty, I. 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And He said: 'I will not do it for the forty's sake.' **Who acts:** righteous, forty, I · **What happens:** speak, say, be, find, not do · **To what, where:** forty · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is Genesis 18:29 · 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 (righteous, forty, 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:471 # text = And he spoke unto Him yet again, and said: 'Peradventure there shall be forty found there.' And He said: 'I will not do it for the forty's sake.' 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 spoke speak VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 unto unto ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obl _ _ 6 yet yet ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 again again ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 12 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 13 Peradventure peradventure ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 14 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 16 expl _ _ 15 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 be be VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 root _ _ 17 forty forty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 nsubj _ _ 18 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 acl _ _ 19 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 18 advmod _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ 21 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ 22 And and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 25 : : PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 26 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ _ 27 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 28 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 29 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 30 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 ccomp _ _ 31 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 for for ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 forty forty NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod:poss _ _ 35 's 's PART POS _ 34 case _ _ 36 sake sake NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 38 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | righteous | | | | again | unto five | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | righteous *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **be** | shall | forty | | | there | | peradventure *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **find** | participle | | | | there | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | righteous | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **not** **do** | future | I | forty | | | | for the forty's sake | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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} וַיֹּ֨סֶף ע֜וֹד לְדַבֵּ֤ר אֵלָיו֙ וַיֹּאמַ֔ר אוּלַ֛י יִמָּצְא֥וּן שָׁ֖ם אַרְבָּעִ֑ים וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ לֹ֣א אֶֽעֱשֶׂ֔ה בַּעֲב֖וּר הָאַרְבָּעִֽים׃ [Genesis 18:29: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.18.29/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. 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