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title: Genesis 24:4 (JPS 1917) — But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wif… · tree and pragmatics
description: But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son, even for Isaac.' Who acts: thou. Genesis 24:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 24:4 · JPS 1917

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But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son, even for Isaac.'

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**Who acts:** thou · **What happens:** go, take · **To what, where:** wife

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This is Genesis 24:4 · 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:624
# text = But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son, even for Isaac.'
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
3	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	kindred	kindred	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	even	even	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Isaac	Isaac	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
26	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=request

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | shall | thou |  |  |  |  | unto my country | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | infinitive | thou *not said here* | a wife |  |  |  | for my son; for Isaac | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent wife=Theme for son=Beneficiary |

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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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כִּ֧י אֶל־אַרְצִ֛י וְאֶל־מוֹלַדְתִּ֖י תֵּלֵ֑ךְ וְלָקַחְתָּ֥ אִשָּׁ֖ה לִבְנִ֥י לְיִצְחָֽק׃

[Genesis 24:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.24.4/)

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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:624` 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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