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title: Genesis 21:25 (JPS 1917) — And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of the well of water, which A… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of the well of water, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away. Who acts: Abraham, servants. Genesis 21:25 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 21:25 · JPS 1917

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And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of the well of water, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.

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**Who acts:** Abraham, servants · **What happens:** reprove, take away · **To what, where:** Abimelech, well

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This is Genesis 21:25 · 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, servants), 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:566
# text = And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of the well of water, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Abraham	Abraham	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	reproved	reprove	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Abimelech	Abimelech	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	because	because	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	8	case	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	fixed	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	well	well	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	obj	_	_
13	Abimelech	Abimelech	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	violently	violently	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	acl:relcl	_	_
19	away	away	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reprove** | past | Abraham | Abimelech |  |  |  | because the well of water | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent abimelech=Theme |
| 2 | **take away** | past · perfect | Abimelech's servants | the well of water |  |  |  | away, violently *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme |

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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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וְהוֹכִ֥חַ אַבְרָהָ֖ם אֶת־אֲבִימֶ֑לֶךְ עַל־אֹדוֹת֙ בְּאֵ֣ר הַמַּ֔יִם אֲשֶׁ֥ר גָּזְל֖וּ עַבְדֵ֥י אֲבִימֶֽלֶךְ׃

[Genesis 21:25: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.21.25/)

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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:566` 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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