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title: Genesis 24:6 (JPS 1917) — And Abraham said unto him: 'Beware thou that thou bring not my son b… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Abraham said unto him: 'Beware thou that thou bring not my son back thither. Who acts: Abraham, thou. Genesis 24:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 24:6 · JPS 1917

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And Abraham said unto him: 'Beware thou that thou bring not my son back thither.

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**Who acts:** Abraham, thou · **What happens:** say, beware, not bring back · **To what, where:** son · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Genesis 24:6 · 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 (Abraham, 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:626
# text = And Abraham said unto him: 'Beware thou that thou bring not my son back thither.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Abraham	Abraham	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Beware	beware	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
9	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	8	nsubj	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	nsubj	_	_
12	bring	bring	VERB	VBP	Mood=Sub|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
14	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	back	back	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
17	thither	thither	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Abraham |  |  |  |  | unto Isaac | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **beware** | infinitive | thou |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **bring back** | present | thou |  | my son |  |  | thither *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument son=Destination |

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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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וַיֹּ֥אמֶר אֵלָ֖יו אַבְרָהָ֑ם הִשָּׁ֣מֶר לְךָ֔ פֶּן־תָּשִׁ֥יב אֶת־בְּנִ֖י שָֽׁמָּה׃

[Genesis 24:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.24.6/)

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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:626` 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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