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title: Genesis 21:30 (JPS 1917) — And he said: 'Verily, these seven ewe-lambs shalt thou take of my ha… · tree and pragmatics
description: And he said: 'Verily, these seven ewe-lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that it may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well.' Who acts: Abraham, thou, hand, I. Genesis 21:30 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 21:30 · JPS 1917

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And he said: 'Verily, these seven ewe-lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that it may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well.'

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**Who acts:** Abraham, thou, hand, I · **What happens:** say, take, be, digg · **To what, where:** seven ewe lambs, witness, well · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Genesis 21:30 · 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, thou, hand, I), 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:571
# text = And he said: 'Verily, these seven ewe-lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that it may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|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	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
5	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
6	Verily	verily	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
9	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
10	ewe	ewe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	_
12	lambs	lamb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
13	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	nsubj	_	_
15	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
22	may	may	AUX	MD	_	25	aux	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	cop	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	witness	witness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	advcl	_	_
26	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nmod	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
30	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	digged	digg	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
33	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	34	det	_	_
34	well	well	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
36	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- hedged: yes
- teacher: changed act=request

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Abraham |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **take** | shall | thou | this seven ewe lambs |  |  |  | of my hand; verily *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent lamb=Theme of hand=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **is a** | may | hand | a witness |  |  |  | unto me | tree rules |
| 4 | **digg** | present · perfect | I | this well |  |  |  |  | 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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וַיֹּ֕אמֶר כִּ֚י אֶת־שֶׁ֣בַע כְּבָשֹׂ֔ת תִּקַּ֖ח מִיָּדִ֑י בַּעֲבוּר֙ תִּֽהְיֶה־לִּ֣י לְעֵדָ֔ה כִּ֥י חָפַ֖רְתִּי אֶת־הַבְּאֵ֥ר הַזֹּֽאת׃

[Genesis 21:30: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.21.30/)

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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:571` 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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