--- title: Genesis 17:26 (JPS 1917) — In the selfsame day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his son. · tree and pragmatics description: In the selfsame day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his son. Genesis 17:26 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree 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/jps/GEN.439/) [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 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/17/) / [17:26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.17.26/) / JPS 1 # Genesis 17:26 · JPS 1917 In the selfsame day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his son. **What happens:** circumcise · **To what, where:** Abraham This is Genesis 17:26 · 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: 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:439 # text = In the selfsame day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his son. 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 selfsame selfsame ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux:pass _ _ 6 Abraham Abraham PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj:pass _ _ 7 circumcised circumcise VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 Ishmael Ishmael PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 11 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 appos _ _ 13 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **circumcise** | past · passive | | Abraham | | | day | | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | 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} בְּעֶ֙צֶם֙ הַיּ֣וֹם הַזֶּ֔ה נִמּ֖וֹל אַבְרָהָ֑ם וְיִשְׁמָעֵ֖אל בְּנֽוֹ׃ [Genesis 17:26: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.17.26/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:439` 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 17:25 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.438/) - next →: [Genesis 17:27 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.440/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 17:26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.17.26/)