--- title: Genesis 22:13 (JPS 1917) — And Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt-of… · tree and pragmatics description: And Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt-offering in the stead of his son. 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:589 # text = And Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt-offering in the stead of his son. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 Abraham Abraham PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 ram ram NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 offered offer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 11 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 up up ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ _ 13 for for ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 15 burnt burnt NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ _ 17 offering offering NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 stead stead NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 21 of of 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 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 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 | **go** | past | Abraham | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **take** | past | Abraham *not said here* | the ram | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ram=Theme | | 3 | **offer up** | past | Abraham *not said here* | Abraham | | the stead of Abraham's son | | for a burnt offering *goal* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent he=Theme for offering=Goal | 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.588/) 2. **And Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt-offering in the stead of his son.** **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:589` 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 22:13 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.588/) - next →: [Genesis 22:14 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.590/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 22:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.22.13/)