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title: Genesis 22:17 (JPS 1917) — that in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multip… · tree and pragmatics
description: that in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the seashore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies; Who acts: I, sand, seed. Genesis 22:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Genesis 22:17 · JPS 1917

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that in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the seashore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;

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**Who acts:** I, sand, seed · **What happens:** bless, multiply, be, possess · **To what, where:** thee, blessing, seed, gate

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This is Genesis 22:17 · 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 (I, sand, seed), 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:593
# text = that in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the seashore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;
1	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	blessing	blessing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	bless	bless	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	multiplying	multiply	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	multiply	multiply	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
15	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
28	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
30	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	seashore	seashore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	acl:relcl	_	_
33	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	38	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
35	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
37	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	possess	possess	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	enemies	enemy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nmod	_	_
44	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: promise
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bless** | future | I | thee |  | blessing |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme |
| 2 | **multiply** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **multiply** | future | I | thy seed |  |  |  | as the stars of the heaven and the sand | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present | the sand |  |  |  |  | upon the seashore | tree rules |
| 5 | **possess** | shall | thy seed | the gate of LORD's enemies |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot gate=Theme |

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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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כִּֽי־בָרֵ֣ךְ אֲבָרֶכְךָ֗ וְהַרְבָּ֨ה אַרְבֶּ֤ה אֶֽת־זַרְעֲךָ֙ כְּכוֹכְבֵ֣י הַשָּׁמַ֔יִם וְכַח֕וֹל אֲשֶׁ֖ר עַל־שְׂפַ֣ת הַיָּ֑ם וְיִרַ֣שׁ זַרְעֲךָ֔ אֵ֖ת שַׁ֥עַר אֹיְבָֽיו׃

[Genesis 22:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.22.17/)

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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:593` 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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