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title: Genesis 26:16 (JPS 1917) — And Abimelech said unto Isaac: 'Go from us; for thou art much mighti… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Abimelech said unto Isaac: 'Go from us; for thou art much mightier than we.' Who acts: Abimelech, thou. Genesis 26:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 26:16 · JPS 1917

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And Abimelech said unto Isaac: 'Go from us; for thou art much mightier than we.'

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**Who acts:** Abimelech, thou · **What happens:** say, go, be · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Genesis 26:16 · 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, thou), 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:749
# text = And Abimelech said unto Isaac: 'Go from us; for thou art much mightier than we.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Abimelech	Abimelech	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Isaac	Isaac	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
12	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	nsubj	_	_
14	art	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	much	much	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	mightier	mighty	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	advcl	_	_
17	than	than	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
20	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Abimelech |  |  |  |  | unto Isaac | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **go** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | from us | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from we=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **is** | present | thou |  |  |  |  | than we; mighty *property* | tree rules |

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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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וַיֹּ֥אמֶר אֲבִימֶ֖לֶךְ אֶל־יִצְחָ֑ק לֵ֚ךְ מֵֽעִמָּ֔נוּ כִּֽי־עָצַֽמְתָּ־מִמֶּ֖נּוּ מְאֹֽד׃

[Genesis 26:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.26.16/)

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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:749` 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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