--- title: Genesis 22:7 (JPS 1917) — And Isaac spoke unto Abraham his father, and said: 'My father.' And… · tree and pragmatics description: And Isaac spoke unto Abraham his father, and said: 'My father.' And he said: 'Here am I, my son.' And he said: 'Behold the fire and the wood; but where is the lamb for a burnt-offering?' Who acts: Isaac, Abraham, I. 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And he said: 'Behold the fire and the wood; but where is the lamb for a burnt-offering?' **Who acts:** Isaac, Abraham, I · **What happens:** speak, say, be, behold · **To what, where:** fire, lamb · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is Genesis 22:7 · 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, Abraham, 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:582 # text = And Isaac spoke unto Abraham his father, and said: 'My father.' And he said: 'Here am I, my son.' And he said: 'Behold the fire and the wood; but where is the lamb for a burnt-offering?' 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 Isaac Isaac PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 spoke speak 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 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 appos _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 12 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 13 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 ccomp _ _ 15 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ 16 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 17 And and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 20 : : PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 21 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ _ 22 Here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 19 ccomp _ _ 23 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 24 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 vocative _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 22 punct _ _ 29 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ _ 30 And and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 33 : : PUNCT : _ 35 punct _ _ 34 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 35 punct _ _ 35 Behold behold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 ccomp _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 conj _ _ 41 ; ; PUNCT : _ 46 punct _ _ 42 but but CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 43 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 46 advmod _ _ 44 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 46 cop _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 lamb lamb NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 conj _ _ 47 for for ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 48 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 49 burnt burnt ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 51 amod _ _ 50 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 49 punct _ _ 51 offering offering NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nmod _ _ 52 ? ? PUNCT . _ 35 punct _ _ 53 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: wh-question - act: ask - voice: character - polarity: none - indirect: yes - teacher: changed form=wh | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | Isaac | | | | | unto Abraham | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Isaac *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Abraham | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | I | | | | | my son *vocative*; here *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Abraham | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **behold** | infinitive | | the fire and the wood | | | | | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fire=Stimulus | | 7 | **is a** | present | | the lamb | | | | for a burnt offering | tree rules | 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} וַיֹּ֨אמֶר יִצְחָ֜ק אֶל־אַבְרָהָ֤ם אָבִיו֙ וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אָבִ֔י וַיֹּ֖אמֶר הִנֶּ֣נִּֽי בְנִ֑י וַיֹּ֗אמֶר הִנֵּ֤ה הָאֵשׁ֙ וְהָ֣עֵצִ֔ים וְאַיֵּ֥ה הַשֶּׂ֖ה לְעֹלָֽה׃ [Genesis 22:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.22.7/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:582` 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 22:6 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.581/) - next →: [Genesis 22:8 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.583/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 22:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.22.7/)