--- title: Genesis 18:33 (JPS 1917) — And the LORD went His way, as soon as He had left off speaking to Ab… · tree and pragmatics description: And the LORD went His way, as soon as He had left off speaking to Abraham; and Abraham returned unto his place. Who acts: LORD, Abraham. 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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, Abraham), 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:478 # text = And the LORD went His way, as soon as He had left off speaking to Abraham; and Abraham returned unto his place. 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 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 as as ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 4 advmod _ _ 10 as as SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 11 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 14 off off ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ _ 15 speaking speak VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 xcomp _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 Abraham Abraham PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 Abraham Abraham PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 returned return VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 22 unto unto ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | the LORD | LORD's way | | | | soon *property* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme | | 2 | **leave off** | past · perfect | LORD | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund | LORD *not said here* | | Abraham | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to abraham=Co-Agent | | 4 | **return** | past | Abraham | | | | | unto LORD's place | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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} וַיֵּ֣לֶךְ יְהוָ֔ה כַּאֲשֶׁ֣ר כִּלָּ֔ה לְדַבֵּ֖ר אֶל־אַבְרָהָ֑ם וְאַבְרָהָ֖ם שָׁ֥ב לִמְקֹמֽוֹ׃ [Genesis 18:33: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.18.33/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:478` 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. - ← previous: [Genesis 18:32 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.477/) - next →: [Genesis 19:1 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.479/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 18:33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.18.33/)