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title: Genesis 24:8 (JPS 1917) — And if the woman be not willing to follow thee, then thou shalt be c… · tree and pragmatics
description: And if the woman be not willing to follow thee, then thou shalt be clear from this my oath; only thou shalt not bring my son back thither.' Who acts: woman, thou. Genesis 24:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 24:8 · JPS 1917

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And if the woman be not willing to follow thee, then thou shalt be clear from this my oath; only thou shalt not bring my son back thither.'

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**Who acts:** woman, thou · **What happens:** not be, follow, be, not bring back · **To what, where:** thee, son

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This is Genesis 24:8 · 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 (woman, 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:628
# text = And if the woman be not willing to follow thee, then thou shalt be clear from this my oath; only thou shalt not bring my son back thither.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	willing	willing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	advcl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
12	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
13	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	nsubj	_	_
14	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	cop	_	_
16	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
19	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	oath	oath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
22	only	only	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
23	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	26	nsubj	_	_
24	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	parataxis	_	_
27	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	back	back	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
30	thither	thither	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
32	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: promise
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=promise, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | infinitive | the woman |  |  |  |  | willing *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **follow** | to-infinitive | the woman *not said here* | thee |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | shall | thou |  |  |  | then | my oath *obl*; clear *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **bring back** | shall | 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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וְאִם־לֹ֨א תֹאבֶ֤ה הָֽאִשָּׁה֙ לָלֶ֣כֶת אַחֲרֶ֔יךָ וְנִקִּ֕יתָ מִשְּׁבֻעָתִ֖י זֹ֑את רַ֣ק אֶת־בְּנִ֔י לֹ֥א תָשֵׁ֖ב שָֽׁמָּה׃

[Genesis 24:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.24.8/)

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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:628` 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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