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title: Genesis 24:40 (JPS 1917) — And he said unto me: The LORD, before whom I walk, will send His ang… · tree and pragmatics
description: And he said unto me: The LORD, before whom I walk, will send His angel with thee, and prosper thy way; and thou shalt take a wife for my son of my kindred, and of my father's house; Who acts: master, I, LORD, thou. Genesis 24:40 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Genesis 24:40 · JPS 1917

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And he said unto me: The LORD, before whom I walk, will send His angel with thee, and prosper thy way; and thou shalt take a wife for my son of my kindred, and of my father's house;

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**Who acts:** master, I, LORD, thou · **What happens:** say, walk, send, prosper, take · **To what, where:** angel, way, wife · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Genesis 24:40 · 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 (master, I, LORD, 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:661
# text = And he said unto me: The LORD, before whom I walk, will send His angel with thee, and prosper thy way; and thou shalt take a wife for my son of my kindred, and of my father's house;
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	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	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
7	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	before	before	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	obl	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	walk	walk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
15	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
17	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	angel	angel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	prosper	prosper	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
24	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	30	nsubj	_	_
29	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	for	for	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	kindred	kindred	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
42	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod:poss	_	_
44	's	's	PART	POS	_	43	case	_	_
45	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	_
46	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | master |  |  |  |  | unto me | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **walk** | present | I |  |  |  | before the LORD |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before whom=Trajectory |
| 3 | **send** | future | the LORD | master's angel |  |  |  | with thee | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent angel=Theme |
| 4 | **prosper** | infinitive | the LORD *not said here* | thy way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **take** | shall | thou | a wife |  |  |  | for my son of my kindred and my father's house | 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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וַיֹּ֖אמֶר אֵלָ֑י יְהוָ֞ה אֲשֶׁר־הִתְהַלַּ֣כְתִּי לְפָנָ֗יו יִשְׁלַ֨ח מַלְאָכ֤וֹ אִתָּךְ֙ וְהִצְלִ֣יחַ דַּרְכֶּ֔ךָ וְלָקַחְתָּ֤ אִשָּׁה֙ לִבְנִ֔י מִמִּשְׁפַּחְתִּ֖י וּמִבֵּ֥ית אָבִֽי׃

[Genesis 24:40: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.24.40/)

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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:661` of Mova's parse database.

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