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title: Genesis 26:11 (JPS 1917) — And Abimelech charged all the people, saying: 'He that toucheth this… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Abimelech charged all the people, saying: 'He that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.' Who acts: Abimelech. Genesis 26:11 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 26:11 · JPS 1917

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And Abimelech charged all the people, saying: 'He that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.'

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**Who acts:** Abimelech · **What happens:** charge, say, touch, put · **To what, where:** people, man, Isaac · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Genesis 26:11 · 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 (Abimelech), 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:744
# text = And Abimelech charged all the people, saying: 'He that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Abimelech	Abimelech	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	charged	charge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	6	det:predet	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
10	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
11	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	toucheth	touch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
19	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
20	surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	ccomp	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
26	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **charge** | past | Abimelech | all people |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location people=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Abimelech *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **touch** | past |  | this man or Isaac's wife |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme man=Co-Theme |
| 4 | **put** | shall · passive |  | Isaac |  |  |  | to death; surely *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal |

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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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וַיְצַ֣ו אֲבִימֶ֔לֶךְ אֶת־כָּל־הָעָ֖ם לֵאמֹ֑ר הַנֹּגֵ֜עַ בָּאִ֥ישׁ הַזֶּ֛ה וּבְאִשְׁתּ֖וֹ מ֥וֹת יוּמָֽת׃

[Genesis 26:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.26.11/)

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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:744` 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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