--- title: Genesis 20:11 (JPS 1917) — And Abraham said: 'Because I thought: Surely the fear of God is not… · 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 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.533/) [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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.20.11/) / JPS 1 # Genesis 20:11 · JPS 1917 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 · **What happens:** say, think, not be, slay, fear · **To what, where:** place, me, God · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is Genesis 20:11 · 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 (Abraham, I, fear, things), 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:533 # text = 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. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 Abraham Abraham PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 : : PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 5 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 6 Because because SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 7 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 10 Surely surely ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 fear fear NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 16 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 19 det _ _ 19 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 ccomp _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 slay slay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 25 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 for for ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 27 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod:poss _ _ 29 's 's PART POS _ 28 case _ _ 30 sake sake NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Abraham | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | I | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **not** **is** | present | the fear of God | | | this place | | surely *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **slay** | future | things *= thing* | me | | | | for my wife's sake | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | | 5 | **fear** | | | God | | | | | nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=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} וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ אַבְרָהָ֔ם כִּ֣י אָמַ֗רְתִּי רַ֚ק אֵין־יִרְאַ֣ת אֱלֹהִ֔ים בַּמָּק֖וֹם הַזֶּ֑ה וַהֲרָג֖וּנִי עַל־דְּבַ֥ר אִשְׁתִּֽי׃ [Genesis 20:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.20.11/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:533` 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 20:10 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.532/) - next →: [Genesis 20:12 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.534/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 20:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.20.11/)