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title: Genesis 21:2 (JPS 1917) — And Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the s… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him. Who acts: Sarah, God. Genesis 21:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 21:2 · JPS 1917

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And Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.

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**Who acts:** Sarah, God · **What happens:** conceive, bear, speak · **To what, where:** son, Abraham, old age, Sarah · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Genesis 21:2 · JPS 1917 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 (Sarah, God), 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:542
# text = And Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Sarah	Sarah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	conceived	conceive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	bore	bear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	Abraham	Abraham	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	iobj	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	set	set	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	obl	_	_
21	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	acl:relcl	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **conceive** | past | Sarah |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **bear** | past | Sarah *not said here* | a son | Abraham |  | in Sarah's old age; time |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent abraham=Beneficiary son=Patient |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | past · perfect | God |  | Sarah |  | of the set time |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-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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וַתַּהַר֩ וַתֵּ֨לֶד שָׂרָ֧ה לְאַבְרָהָ֛ם בֵּ֖ן לִזְקֻנָ֑יו לַמּוֹעֵ֕ד אֲשֶׁר־דִּבֶּ֥ר אֹת֖וֹ אֱלֹהִֽים׃

[Genesis 21:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.21.2/)

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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:542` 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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