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title: Genesis 26:15 (JPS 1917) — Now all the wells which his father's servants had digged in the days… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now all the wells which his father's servants had digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with earth. Who acts: servants, Philistines. Genesis 26:15 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 26:15 · JPS 1917

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Now all the wells which his father's servants had digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with earth.

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**Who acts:** servants, Philistines · **What happens:** dig, stop, fill · **To what, where:** wells, servants, Philistines

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This is Genesis 26:15 · 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 (servants, Philistines), 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:748
# text = Now all the wells which his father's servants had digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with earth.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	wells	well	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	dislocated	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	obj	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	digged	dig	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	acl:relcl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Abraham	Abraham	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Philistines	philistine	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	stopped	stop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	filled	fill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	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 | **dig** | past · perfect | Isaac's father's servants | all wells |  |  | day |  | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent which=Theme |
| 2 | **stop** | past · perfect | the Philistines | servants *= servant* |  |  | now | all wells *dislocated* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector they=Eventuality |
| 3 | **fill** | past | the Philistines *not said here* | Philistines *= philistine* |  |  |  | with earth | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient with earth=Instrument |

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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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וְכָל־הַבְּאֵרֹ֗ת אֲשֶׁ֤ר חָֽפְרוּ֙ עַבְדֵ֣י אָבִ֔יו בִּימֵ֖י אַבְרָהָ֣ם אָבִ֑יו סִתְּמ֣וּם פְּלִשְׁתִּ֔ים וַיְמַלְא֖וּם עָפָֽר׃

[Genesis 26:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.26.15/)

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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:748` 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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