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title: Genesis 26:1 (JPS 1917) — And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar. · tree and pragmatics
description: And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar. Who acts: Isaac. Genesis 26:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 26:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar.

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**Who acts:** Isaac · **What happens:** go

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This is Genesis 26:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 (Isaac), 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:734
# text = And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Isaac	Isaac	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	Abimelech	Abimelech	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
6	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Philistines	Philistines	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Gerar	Gerar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **go** | past | Isaac |  |  |  |  | unto king  Abimelech of the Philistines; unto Gerar | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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וַיְהִ֤י רָעָב֙ בָּאָ֔רֶץ מִלְּבַד֙ הָרָעָ֣ב הָרִאשׁ֔וֹן אֲשֶׁ֥ר הָיָ֖ה בִּימֵ֣י אַבְרָהָ֑ם וַיֵּ֧לֶךְ יִצְחָ֛ק אֶל־אֲבִימֶּ֥לֶךְמֶֽלֶךְ־פְּלִשְׁתִּ֖ים גְּרָֽרָה׃

[Genesis 26:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.26.1/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.733/)
2. **And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar.**

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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:734` 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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