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title: Genesis 18:31 (JPS 1917) — Peradventure there shall be twenty found there.' And He said: 'I wil… · tree and pragmatics
description: Peradventure there shall be twenty found there.' And He said: 'I will not destroy it for the twenty's sake.' Who acts: twenty, righteous, I. Genesis 18:31 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 18:31 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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Peradventure there shall be twenty found there.' And He said: 'I will not destroy it for the twenty's sake.'

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**Who acts:** twenty, righteous, I · **What happens:** be, find, say, not destroy · **To what, where:** thirty · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Genesis 18:31 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 (twenty, righteous, 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:475
# text = Peradventure there shall be twenty found there.' And He said: 'I will not destroy it for the twenty's sake.'
1	Peradventure	peradventure	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nsubj	_	_
6	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
9	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
10	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
14	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	destroy	destroy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	sake	sake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
26	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | shall | twenty |  |  | there |  | peradventure *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | participle |  |  |  | there |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | righteous |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **not** **destroy** | future | I | thirty |  |  |  | for the twenty's sake | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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וַיֹּ֗אמֶר הִנֵּֽה־נָ֤א הוֹאַ֙לְתִּי֙ לְדַבֵּ֣ר אֶל־אֲדֹנָ֔י אוּלַ֛י יִמָּצְא֥וּן שָׁ֖ם עֶשְׂרִ֑ים וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ לֹ֣א אַשְׁחִ֔ית בַּעֲב֖וּר הָֽעֶשְׂרִֽים׃

[Genesis 18:31: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.18.31/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [And he said: 'Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.474/)
2. **Peradventure there shall be twenty found there.' And He said: 'I will not destroy it for the twenty's sake.'**

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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:475` 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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