--- title: Genesis 22:13 (JPS 1917) — And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a… · tree and pragmatics description: And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in the thicket by his horns. Who acts: Abraham. 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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:588 # text = And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in the thicket by his horns. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 Abraham Abraham PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 lifted lift VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 up up ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 5 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 12 behold behold INTJ UH _ 17 discourse _ _ 13 behind behind ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obl _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 ram ram NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 17 caught catch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 thicket thicket NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 by by ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 horns horn NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 24 . . 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 | **lift up** | past | Abraham | Abraham's eyes | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | | 2 | **look** | past | Abraham *not said here* | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **catch** | participle · passive | | a ram | | the thicket | | behind Abraham; by Abraham's horns | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | 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} וַיִּשָּׂ֨א אַבְרָהָ֜ם אֶת־עֵינָ֗יו וַיַּרְא֙ וְהִנֵּה־אַ֔יִל אַחַ֕ר נֶאֱחַ֥ז בַּסְּבַ֖ךְ בְּקַרְנָ֑יו וַיֵּ֤לֶךְ אַבְרָהָם֙ וַיִּקַּ֣ח אֶת־הָאַ֔יִל וַיַּעֲלֵ֥הוּ לְעֹלָ֖ה תַּ֥חַת בְּנֽוֹ׃ [Genesis 22:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.22.13/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. **And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in the thicket by his horns.** 2. [And Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt-offering in the stead of his son.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.589/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:588` 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 22:12 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.587/) - next →: [Genesis 22:13 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.589/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 22:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.22.13/)