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title: Genesis 22:18 (JPS 1917) — and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; becau… · tree and pragmatics
description: and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast hearkened to My voice.' Who acts: thou. Genesis 22:18 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 22:18 · JPS 1917

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and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast hearkened to My voice.'

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**Who acts:** thou · **What happens:** bless, hearken · **To what, where:** nations, seed

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This is Genesis 22:18 · 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 (thou), 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:594
# text = and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast hearkened to My voice.'
1	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
5	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	8	det:predet	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	nations	nation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	blessed	bless	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
15	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	18	nsubj	_	_
17	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	hearkened	hearken	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
23	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bless** | shall · passive |  | all nations of the earth |  | thy seed |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **hearken** | present · perfect | thou |  |  |  |  | to My voice | 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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וְהִתְבָּרֲכ֣וּ בְזַרְעֲךָ֔ כֹּ֖ל גּוֹיֵ֣י הָאָ֑רֶץ עֵ֕קֶב אֲשֶׁ֥ר שָׁמַ֖עְתָּ בְּקֹלִֽי׃

[Genesis 22:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.22.18/)

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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:594` 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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