--- title: Genesis 21:8 (JPS 1917) — And the child grew, and was weaned. · tree and pragmatics description: And the child grew, and was weaned. Who acts: child. Genesis 21:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.548/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Torah](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/) / [Genesis](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/) / [chapter 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/21/) / [21:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.21.8/) / JPS 1 # Genesis 21:8 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 And the child grew, and was weaned. **Who acts:** child · **What happens:** grow, wean This is Genesis 21:8 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 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 (child), 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:548 # text = And the child grew, and was weaned. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux:pass _ _ 8 weaned wean VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 9 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=narrate | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | past | the child | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **wean** | past · passive | the child *not said here* | | | | | | vn free-10.6.3 «NP V NP PP.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} וַיִּגְדַּ֥ל הַיֶּ֖לֶד וַיִּגָּמַ֑ל וַיַּ֤עַשׂ אַבְרָהָם֙ מִשְׁתֶּ֣ה גָד֔וֹל בְּי֖וֹם הִגָּמֵ֥ל אֶת־יִצְחָֽק׃ [Genesis 21:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.21.8/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. **And the child grew, and was weaned.** 2. [And Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.549/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:548` 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 21:7 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.547/) - next →: [Genesis 21:8 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.549/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 21:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.21.8/)