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title: Genesis 21:10 (JPS 1917) — Wherefore she said unto Abraham: 'Cast out this bondwoman and her so… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wherefore she said unto Abraham: 'Cast out this bondwoman and her son; for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac.' Who acts: Isaac, son. Genesis 21:10 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 21:10 · JPS 1917

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Wherefore she said unto Abraham: 'Cast out this bondwoman and her son; for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac.'

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**Who acts:** Isaac, son · **What happens:** say, cast out, not be · **To what, where:** bondwoman, heir · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Genesis 21:10 · 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 (Isaac, son), 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:551
# text = Wherefore she said unto Abraham: 'Cast out this bondwoman and her son; for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac.'
1	Wherefore	wherefore	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|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	Abraham	Abraham	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Cast	cast	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	bondwoman	bondwoman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
16	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
21	bondwoman	bondwoman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	cop	_	_
25	heir	heir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	even	even	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	Isaac	Isaac	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
34	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Isaac |  |  |  |  | unto Abraham; wherefore *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **cast out** | infinitive |  | this bondwoman and Isaac's son |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bondwoman=Product |
| 3 | **not** **is a** | shall | the son of this bondwoman | heir |  |  |  | with my son; with Isaac | tree rules |

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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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וַתֹּ֙אמֶר֙ לְאַבְרָהָ֔ם גָּרֵ֛שׁ הָאָמָ֥ה הַזֹּ֖את וְאֶת־בְּנָ֑הּ כִּ֣י לֹ֤א יִירַשׁ֙ בֶּן־הָאָמָ֣ה הַזֹּ֔את עִם־בְּנִ֖י עִם־יִצְחָֽק׃

[Genesis 21:10: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.21.10/)

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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:551` 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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