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title: Genesis 18:32 (JPS 1917) — And he said: 'Oh, let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet bu… · tree and pragmatics
description: And he said: 'Oh, let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once. Who acts: righteous, Lord, I. Genesis 18:32 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 18:32 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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And he said: 'Oh, let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once.

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**Who acts:** righteous, Lord, I · **What happens:** say, not let, be, speak · **To what, where:** Lord · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Genesis 18:32 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 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 (righteous, 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:476
# text = And he said: 'Oh, let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once.
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	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
5	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
6	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
13	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
19	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	but	but	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
22	once	once	ADV	RB	NumType=Mult	18	advmod	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | righteous |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **let** | infinitive |  | the Lord |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lord=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | infinitive | the Lord *not said here* |  |  |  |  | angry *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | future | I |  |  |  | yet | once *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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וַ֠יֹּאמֶר אַל־נָ֞א יִ֤חַר לַֽאדֹנָי֙ וַאֲדַבְּרָ֣ה אַךְ־הַפַּ֔עַם אוּלַ֛י יִמָּצְא֥וּן שָׁ֖ם עֲשָׂרָ֑ה וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ לֹ֣א אַשְׁחִ֔ית בַּעֲב֖וּר הָעֲשָׂרָֽה׃

[Genesis 18:32: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.18.32/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **And he said: 'Oh, let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once.**
2. [Peradventure ten shall be found there.' And He said: 'I will not destroy it for the ten's sake.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.477/)

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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:476` 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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