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title: Genesis 18:32 (JPS 1917) — Peradventure ten shall be found there.' And He said: 'I will not des… · tree and pragmatics
description: Peradventure ten shall be found there.' And He said: 'I will not destroy it for the ten's sake.' Who acts: righteous, 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 2 of 2

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

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

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This is Genesis 18:32 · 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 (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:477
# text = Peradventure ten shall be found there.' And He said: 'I will not destroy it for the ten's sake.'
1	Peradventure	peradventure	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
8	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
9	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
13	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	destroy	destroy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	's	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	sake	sake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
25	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: promise
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | shall · passive |  | ten |  | there |  | peradventure *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | righteous |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **destroy** | future | I | twenty |  |  |  | for the ten'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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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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.476/)
2. **Peradventure ten shall be found there.' And He said: 'I will not destroy it for the ten'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:477` 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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