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title: Genesis 28:21 (JPS 1917) — so that I come back to my father's house in peace, then shall the LO… · tree and pragmatics
description: so that I come back to my father's house in peace, then shall the LORD be my God, Who acts: I, LORD. Genesis 28:21 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 28:21 · JPS 1917

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so that I come back to my father's house in peace, then shall the LORD be my God,

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**Who acts:** I, LORD · **What happens:** come back, be · **To what, where:** peace, God

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This is Genesis 28:21 · 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 (I, LORD), 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:848
# text = so that I come back to my father's house in peace, then shall the LORD be my God,
1	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	4	mark	_	_
2	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
5	back	back	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
14	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
15	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	_
19	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	God	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **come back** | present | I |  |  | peace |  | to my father's house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **is a** | shall | the LORD | my God |  |  | then |  | tree rules |

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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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וְשַׁבְתִּ֥י בְשָׁל֖וֹם אֶל־בֵּ֣ית אָבִ֑י וְהָיָ֧ה יְהוָ֛ה לִ֖י לֵאלֹהִֽים׃

[Genesis 28:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.28.21/)

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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:848` 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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