--- title: Genesis 19:21 (JPS 1917) — And he said unto him: 'See, I have accepted thee concerning this thi… · tree and pragmatics description: And he said unto him: 'See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city of which thou hast spoken. Who acts: soul, I, thou. 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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 (soul, I, thou), 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:500 # text = And he said unto him: 'See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city of which thou hast spoken. 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 unto unto ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obl _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 7 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 8 See see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 10 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 accepted accept VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 ccomp _ _ 13 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 12 obj _ _ 14 concerning concern VERB VBG VerbForm=Part 16 case _ _ 15 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 16 det _ _ 16 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 17 also also ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 that that SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 20 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 21 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 22 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 23 overthrow overthrow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 ccomp _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 30 obl _ _ 28 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 30 nsubj _ _ 29 hast have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 spoken speak VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 25 acl:relcl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=decl, act=assert, indirect=0 | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | soul | | | | | unto evil | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **see** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **accept** | present · perfect | I | thee | | | | concern this thing | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent thou=Theme clause=Attribute | | 4 | **concern** | gerund | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **not** **overthrow** | future | I | the city | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **speak** *speech: other* | present · perfect | thou | | | | | of the city | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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} וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֵלָ֔יו הִנֵּה֙ נָשָׂ֣אתִי פָנֶ֔יךָ גַּ֖ם לַדָּבָ֣ר הַזֶּ֑ה לְבִלְתִּ֛י הָפְכִּ֥י אֶת־הָעִ֖יר אֲשֶׁ֥ר דִּבַּֽרְתָּ׃ [Genesis 19:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.19.21/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:500` 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 19:20 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.499/) - next →: [Genesis 19:22 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.501/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 19:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.19.21/)