--- title: Genesis 28:15 (JPS 1917) — And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee whithersoever thou g… · tree and pragmatics description: And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee whithersoever thou goest, and will bring thee back into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of.' Who acts: thou, I. 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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, I), 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:842 # text = And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee whithersoever thou goest, and will bring thee back into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of.' 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 behold behold INTJ UH _ 8 discourse _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 6 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 thee thou ADP IN _ 0 root _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 13 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 12 obj _ _ 14 whithersoever whithersoever ADV WRB PronType=Rel 16 advmod _ _ 15 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 16 nsubj _ _ 16 goest go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 21 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 20 obj _ _ 22 back back ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 23 into into ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 25 det _ _ 25 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 27 for for SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 28 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 29 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 30 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 31 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 parataxis _ _ 32 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 31 obj _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 34 until until SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 35 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 36 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 37 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 31 advcl _ _ 38 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 37 obj _ _ 39 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 42 obl _ _ 40 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 41 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 42 spoken speak VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 38 acl:relcl _ _ 43 to to ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 42 obl _ _ 45 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 46 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ 47 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: promise - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | future | | thee | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme | | 2 | **go** | present | thou | | | | | whithersoever *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **bring back** | future | | thee | | this land | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent thou=Theme into land=Destination | | 4 | **not** **leave** | future | I | thee | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme | | 5 | **do** | present · perfect | I | that | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | | 6 | **speak** *speech: other* | present · perfect | I | | | | | to thee | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to thou=Co-Agent | 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} וְהִנֵּ֨ה אָנֹכִ֜י עִמָּ֗ךְ וּשְׁמַרְתִּ֙יךָ֙ בְּכֹ֣ל אֲשֶׁר־תֵּלֵ֔ךְ וַהֲשִׁ֣בֹתִ֔יךָ אֶל־הָאֲדָמָ֖ה הַזֹּ֑את כִּ֚י לֹ֣א אֶֽעֱזָבְךָ֔ עַ֚ד אֲשֶׁ֣ר אִם־עָשִׂ֔יתִי אֵ֥ת אֲשֶׁר־דִּבַּ֖רְתִּי לָֽךְ׃ [Genesis 28:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.28.15/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:842` 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. - ← previous: [Genesis 28:14 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.841/) - next →: [Genesis 28:16 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.843/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 28:15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.28.15/)