--- title: Genesis 19:22 (JPS 1917) — Hasten thou, escape thither; for I cannot do any thing till thou be… · tree and pragmatics description: Hasten thou, escape thither; for I cannot do any thing till thou be come thither.' — Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar. — Who acts: thou, I. 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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 (thou, 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:501 # text = Hasten thou, escape thither; for I cannot do any thing till thou be come thither.' — Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar. — 1 Hasten hasten VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 1 nsubj _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 escape escape VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 5 thither thither ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 ; ; PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 7 for for SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 8 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 9 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 10 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 11 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 advcl _ _ 12 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 13 det _ _ 13 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 till till SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 15 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 17 nsubj _ _ 16 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 17 aux _ _ 17 come come VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ _ 18 thither thither ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ 20 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ _ 21 — - PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 22 Therefore therefore ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj:pass _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 28 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux:pass _ _ 29 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 parataxis _ _ 30 Zoar Zoar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 xcomp _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ 32 — - PUNCT : _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hasten** | infinitive | thou | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **escape** | infinitive | thou *not said here* | | | | | thither *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **not** **do** | can | I | any thing | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | | 4 | **come** | infinitive · passive | thou | | | | | thither *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **call** | past · passive | | the name of the city | | | | therefore *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 6 | **name** | | | the city | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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} מַהֵר֙ הִמָּלֵ֣ט שָׁ֔מָּה כִּ֣י לֹ֤א אוּכַל֙ לַעֲשׂ֣וֹת דָּבָ֔ר עַד־בֹּאֲךָ֖ שָׁ֑מָּה עַל־כֵּ֛ן קָרָ֥א שֵׁם־הָעִ֖יר צֽוֹעַר׃ [Genesis 19:22: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.19.22/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:501` 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 19:21 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.500/) - next →: [Genesis 19:23 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.502/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 19:22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.19.22/)