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title: Genesis 26:5 (JPS 1917) — because that Abraham hearkened to My voice, and kept My charge, My c… · tree and pragmatics
description: because that Abraham hearkened to My voice, and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.' Who acts: Abraham, My. Genesis 26:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 26:5 · JPS 1917

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because that Abraham hearkened to My voice, and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.'

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**Who acts:** Abraham, My · **What happens:** hearken, keep, charge, command · **To what, where:** charge · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Genesis 26:5 · 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, My), 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:738
# text = because that Abraham hearkened to My voice, and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.'
1	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	Abraham	Abraham	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	hearkened	hearken	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	charge	charge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	commandments	commandment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	statutes	statute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	laws	law	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
24	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hearken** | past | Abraham |  |  |  |  | to My voice | tree rules |
| 2 | **keep** | past | Abraham *not said here* | My charge and My commandments and My statutes and My laws |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charge=Theme |
| 3 | **charge** |  | My |  |  |  |  |  | nom charge «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 4 | **command** |  | My |  |  |  |  |  | nom commandment «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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עֵ֕קֶב אֲשֶׁר־שָׁמַ֥ע אַבְרָהָ֖ם בְּקֹלִ֑י וַיִּשְׁמֹר֙ מִשְׁמַרְתִּ֔י מִצְוֺתַ֖י חֻקּוֹתַ֥י וְתוֹרֹתָֽי׃

[Genesis 26:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.26.5/)

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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:738` 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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