--- title: Genesis 21:22 (JPS 1917) — And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phicol the capt… · tree and pragmatics description: And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phicol the captain of his host spoke unto Abraham, saying: 'God is with thee in all that thou doest. Who acts: wilderness, Abimelech, God, thou. 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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 (wilderness, Abimelech, God, thou), 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:563 # text = And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phicol the captain of his host spoke unto Abraham, saying: 'God is with thee in all that thou doest. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 pass pass VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 at at ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 8 det _ _ 8 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 10 that that SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 11 Abimelech Abimelech PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 Phicol Phicol PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 captain captain NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 appos _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 host host NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 19 spoke speak VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 20 unto unto ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 Abraham Abraham PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 advcl _ _ 24 : : PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 25 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ _ 26 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 28 with with ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 23 ccomp _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 29 obl _ _ 32 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 34 obj _ _ 33 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 34 nsubj _ _ 34 doest do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 acl:relcl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: evaluate - voice: character - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | wilderness | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **pass** | to-infinitive | wilderness *not said here* | | | | time | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | Abimelech and Phicol | | | | | unto Abraham | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Abimelech and Phicol *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | present | God | | | all | | with thee | tree rules | | 6 | **do** | present | thou | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | 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} וַֽיְהִי֙ בָּעֵ֣ת הַהִ֔וא וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֲבִימֶ֗לֶךְ וּפִיכֹל֙ שַׂר־צְבָא֔וֹ אֶל־אַבְרָהָ֖ם לֵאמֹ֑ר אֱלֹהִ֣ים עִמְּךָ֔ בְּכֹ֥ל אֲשֶׁר־אַתָּ֖ה עֹשֶֽׂה׃ [Genesis 21:22: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.21.22/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:563` 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 21:21 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.562/) - next →: [Genesis 21:23 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.564/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 21:22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.21.22/)