--- title: Genesis 21:28 (JPS 1917) — And Abraham set seven ewe-lambs of the flock by themselves. · tree and pragmatics description: And Abraham set seven ewe-lambs of the flock by themselves. Who acts: Abraham. Genesis 21:28 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.569/) [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/) / [21:28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.21.28/) / JPS 1 # Genesis 21:28 · JPS 1917 And Abraham set seven ewe-lambs of the flock by themselves. **Who acts:** Abraham · **What happens:** set · **To what, where:** seven ewe lambs This is Genesis 21:28 · 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 (Abraham), 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:569 # text = And Abraham set seven ewe-lambs of the flock by themselves. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 Abraham Abraham PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 set set VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 5 ewe ewe NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ _ 7 lambs lamb NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 flock flock NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 by by ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 themselves themselves PRON PRP Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 3 obl _ _ 13 . . 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 | **set** | past | Abraham | seven ewe lambs of the flock | | | | by Abimelech | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent lamb=Theme by themselves=Destination | 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} וַיַּצֵּ֣ב אַבְרָהָ֗ם אֶת־שֶׁ֛בַע כִּבְשֹׂ֥ת הַצֹּ֖אן לְבַדְּהֶֽן׃ [Genesis 21:28: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.21.28/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:569` 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 21:27 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.568/) - next →: [Genesis 21:29 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.570/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 21:28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.21.28/)