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title: Genesis 21:9 (JPS 1917) — And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne unto… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne unto Abraham, making sport. Who acts: Sarah, Isaac. Genesis 21:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 21:9 · JPS 1917

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And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne unto Abraham, making sport.

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**Who acts:** Sarah, Isaac · **What happens:** see, bear, make · **To what, where:** son, Egyptian, sport

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This is Genesis 21:9 · 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, Isaac), 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:550
# text = And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne unto Abraham, making sport.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Sarah	Sarah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Hagar	Hagar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Egyptian	Egyptian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	obj	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	borne	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	acl:relcl	_	_
15	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Abraham	Abraham	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
19	sport	sport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **see** | past | Sarah | the son of Hagar |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer son=Stimulus |
| 2 | **bear** | past · perfect | Isaac | the Egyptian |  |  |  | unto Abraham | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Patient |
| 3 | **make** | gerund | Sarah *not said here* | sport |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sport=Product |

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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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וַתֵּ֨רֶא שָׂרָ֜ה אֶֽת־בֶּן־הָגָ֧ר הַמִּצְרִ֛ית אֲשֶׁר־יָלְדָ֥ה לְאַבְרָהָ֖ם מְצַחֵֽק׃

[Genesis 21:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.21.9/)

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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:550` 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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