--- title: Genesis 21:16 (JPS 1917) — And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as i… · tree and pragmatics description: And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bow-shot; for she said: 'Let me not look upon the death of the child.' And she sat over against him, and lifted up her voice, and wept. Who acts: Hagar, water, me, child. 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And she sat over against him, and lifted up her voice, and wept. **Who acts:** Hagar, water, me, child · **What happens:** go, sit down, be, say, let, not look · **To what, where:** Hagar, bow shot, me, voice · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is Genesis 21:16 · 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 (Hagar, water, me, 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:557 # text = And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bow-shot; for she said: 'Let me not look upon the death of the child.' And she sat over against him, and lifted up her voice, and wept. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 went go 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 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 7 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ _ 8 down down ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ _ 9 over over ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 10 against against ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obl _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl:unmarked _ _ 15 off off ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 17 as as SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 19 were be AUX VBD Mood=Sub|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 21 bow bow NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ _ 23 shot shot NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 advcl _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 25 for for SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 26 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 28 : : PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 29 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ _ 30 Let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 ccomp _ _ 31 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 33 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 xcomp _ _ 34 upon upon ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 30 punct _ _ 41 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 30 punct _ _ 42 And and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 43 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 44 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 45 over over ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 46 against against ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 obl _ _ 48 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 49 and and CCONJ CC _ 50 cc _ _ 50 lifted lift VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 44 conj _ _ 51 up up ADP RP _ 50 compound:prt _ _ 52 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 53 nmod:poss _ _ 53 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 obj _ _ 54 , , PUNCT , _ 56 punct _ _ 55 and and CCONJ CC _ 56 cc _ _ 56 wept weep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 50 conj _ _ 57 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | Hagar | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **sit down** | past | Hagar *not said here* | Hagar | | | | against Abraham; off, over *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | past | water | a bow shot | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Hagar | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **let** | infinitive | | me | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **not** **look** | infinitive | me *not said here* | | | | | upon the death of the child | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon death=Theme | | 7 | **sit over** | past | Hagar | | | | | against Abraham; over *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent against he=Location | | 8 | **lift up** | past | Hagar *not said here* | Hagar's voice | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Theme | | 9 | **weep** | past | Hagar *not said here* | | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 10 | **die** | | the child | | | | | | nom death «event intransitive»: of=agent | 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} וַתֵּלֶךְ֩ וַתֵּ֨שֶׁב לָ֜הּ מִנֶּ֗גֶד הַרְחֵק֙ כִּמְטַחֲוֵ֣י קֶ֔שֶׁת כִּ֣י אָֽמְרָ֔ה אַל־אֶרְאֶ֖ה בְּמ֣וֹת הַיָּ֑לֶד וַתֵּ֣שֶׁב מִנֶּ֔גֶד וַתִּשָּׂ֥א אֶת־קֹלָ֖הּ וַתֵּֽבְךְּ׃ [Genesis 21:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.21.16/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:557` 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 21:15 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.556/) - next →: [Genesis 21:17 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.558/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 21:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.21.16/)