--- title: Genesis 20:11 — And Abraham said: 'Because I thought: Surely the fear of God is not… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: And Abraham said: 'Because I thought: Surely the fear of God is not in this place; and they will slay me for my wife's sake. Who acts: Abraham, I, fear, things. Genesis 20:11 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Onkelos, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.20.11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Torah](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/) / [Genesis](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/) / [chapter 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/20/) / 20:11 # Genesis 20:11 בְּרֵאשִׁית **Who acts:** Abraham, I, fear, things · **What happens:** say, think, not be, slay, fear · **To what, where:** place, me, God · **Speech:** someone speaks in this verse This is Genesis 20:11 from Mova's open Bible corpus, the Tanakh in three languages (The Torah). The page gives the verse in Hebrew as the Westminster Leningrad Codex has it, its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, built from MACULA Hebrew — and its pragmatics: who acts — Abraham, I, fear, things — and what happens in the verse to place, me, God, read clause by clause by Mova's frames. Beside it stand the Aramaic of Targum Onkelos and the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, each English sentence with a tree of its own. It is one of the 50 chapters of Genesis on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between. וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ אַבְרָהָ֔ם כִּ֣י אָמַ֗רְתִּי רַ֚ק אֵין־יִרְאַ֣ת אֱלֹהִ֔ים בַּמָּק֖וֹם הַזֶּ֑ה וַהֲרָג֖וּנִי עַל־דְּבַ֥ר אִשְׁתִּֽי׃ [And Abraham said: 'Because I thought: Surely the fear of God is not in this place; and they will slay me for my wife's sake.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.533/) ## The tree {#tree} Right to left, as the Hebrew is read; a prefix or suffix is a word of its own, and a line under the words joins those written as one. Under each word its part of speech and MACULA's English gloss. ```conllu rtl gloss # sent_id = wlc:GEN:506 # text = וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ אַבְרָהָ֔ם כִּ֣י אָמַ֗רְתִּי רַ֚ק אֵין־יִרְאַ֣ת אֱלֹהִ֔ים בַּמָּק֖וֹם הַזֶּ֑ה וַהֲרָג֖וּנִי עַל־דְּבַ֥ר אִשְׁתִּֽי׃ # verse = GEN.20.11 1-2 וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 2 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_20:11!1|MId=o010200110011|Strong=2050b 2 יֹּ֙אמֶר֙ אָמַר VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=he.said|Ref=GEN_20:11!1|MId=o010200110012|Strong=0559|Frame=A0:010200110021;|Type=wayyiqtol 3 אַבְרָהָ֔ם אַבְרָהָם PROPN _ _ 2 nsubj _ Gloss=Abraham|Ref=GEN_20:11!2|MId=o010200110021|Strong=0085 4 כִּ֣י כִּי SCONJ _ _ 5 mark _ Gloss=(dm)|Ref=GEN_20:11!3|MId=o010200110031|Strong=3588 5 אָמַ֗רְתִּי אָמַר VERB _ Gender=Com|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=1 2 advcl _ Gloss=I.said|Ref=GEN_20:11!4|MId=o010200110041|Strong=0559|Frame=A0:010200110021;|Type=qatal 6 רַ֚ק רַק ADV _ _ 7 advmod _ Gloss=certainly|Ref=GEN_20:11!5|MId=o010200110051|Strong=7535|Type=affirmation 7 אֵין־ אַיִן ADV _ _ 5 ccomp _ Gloss=there.[is].not|Ref=GEN_20:11!6|MId=o010200110061|Strong=0369|Type=negative|SpaceAfter=No 8 יִרְאַ֣ת יִרְאָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ Gloss=fear|Ref=GEN_20:11!7|MId=o010200110071|Strong=3374 9 אֱלֹהִ֔ים אֱלֹהִים NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 8 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.God|Ref=GEN_20:11!8|MId=o010200110081|Strong=0430 10-12 בַּמָּק֖וֹם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 10 בַּ בְּ ADP _ _ 12 case _ Gloss=in|Ref=GEN_20:11!9|MId=o010200110091|Strong=0871a 11 ה הַ DET _ PronType=Art 12 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=GEN_20:11!9|MId=o010200110091ה|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 12 מָּק֖וֹם מָקוֹם NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 7 obl _ Gloss=place|Ref=GEN_20:11!9|MId=o010200110092|Strong=4725 13-14 הַזֶּ֑ה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 13 הַ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 14 det _ Gloss=(the)|Ref=GEN_20:11!10|MId=o010200110101|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 14 זֶּ֑ה זֶה DET _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 12 det _ Gloss=this|Ref=GEN_20:11!10|MId=o010200110102|Strong=2088|Type=demonstrative 15-17 וַהֲרָג֖וּנִי _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 15 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 16 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_20:11!11|MId=o010200110111|Strong=2050b 16 הֲרָג֖וּ הָרַג VERB _ Gender=Com|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3 7 conj _ Gloss=they|Ref=GEN_20:11!11|MId=o010200110112|Strong=2026|Frame=A0:;A1:010200110113;|Type=weqatal 17 נִי הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ Gloss=will.kill.me|Ref=GEN_20:11!11|MId=o010200110113|Strong=5204a|Type=pronominal 18 עַל־ עַל ADP _ _ 19 case _ Gloss=on|Ref=GEN_20:11!12|MId=o010200110121|Strong=5921|SpaceAfter=No 19 דְּבַ֥ר דָּבָר NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 16 obl _ Gloss=the.matter|Ref=GEN_20:11!13|MId=o010200110131|Strong=1697 20-21 אִשְׁתִּֽי _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 20 אִשְׁתּ אִשָּׁה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 19 compound:smixut _ Gloss=my.wife|Ref=GEN_20:11!14|MId=o010200110141|Strong=0802 21 ִֽי הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ Gloss=my|Ref=GEN_20:11!14|MId=o010200110142|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal 22 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 21 punct _ Ref=GEN_20:11!14 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - speech: a frame and its quote - negation: yes - the frame alone: decl · narrate · none | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | יֹּאמֶר *he said* | wayyiqtol · qal | אַבְרָהָם *Abraham* | | | | | **not** אָמַרְתִּי *I said* | qatal · qal | אַבְרָהָם *Abraham* | | | | | הֲרָגוּ *they* | weqatal · qal | | נִי *will kill me* | | | MACULA's semantic frames: for each verb the head word of each participant. A0 is the one who acts, A1 what the act is done to or is about, A2 a further participant; AA, with a causative verb, the one who makes it happen. ## Targum Onkelos {#onkelos} וַאֲמַר אַבְרָהָם אֲרֵי אֲמָרִית לְחוֹד לֵית דַּחַלְתָּא דַּיְיָ בְּאַתְרָא הָדֵין וְיִקְטְלֻנַּנִי עַל עֵיסַק אִתְּתִי The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet. ## English, JPS 1917 {#english} Each sentence on its own page, with its tree and pragmatics. A sentence that runs on into the next verse is listed under the verse it begins in. 1. [And Abraham said: 'Because I thought: Surely the fear of God is not in this place; and they will slay me for my wife's sake.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.533/) **Hebrew text:** Westminster Leningrad Codex, public domain. **Tree, glosses and frames:** MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets, available at [github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew](https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew/), [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); converted to Universal Dependencies by Mova (words in text order, a prefix its own word). **Speech act:** Mova's rules on the MACULA words (`macula prag`). **Targum:** Onkelos (Torat Emet), Jonathan and the Writings (Mikraot Gedolot), from Sefaria, public domain. **English:** JPS 1917, public domain; trees and speech acts by Mova's cycle, frames by Mova's reader (Elamur Cosmic License). 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