--- title: Genesis 26:20 (JPS 1917) — And the herdmen of Gerar strove with Isaac's herdmen, saying: 'The w… · tree and pragmatics description: And the herdmen of Gerar strove with Isaac's herdmen, saying: 'The water is ours.' And he called the name of the well Esek; because they contended with him. Who acts: herdmen, water, Isaac, wells. 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And he called the name of the well Esek; because they contended with him. **Who acts:** herdmen, water, Isaac, wells · **What happens:** strive, say, be, call, contend, name · **To what, where:** ours, name, well · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is Genesis 26:20 · 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 (herdmen, water, Isaac, wells), 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:753 # text = And the herdmen of Gerar strove with Isaac's herdmen, saying: 'The water is ours.' And he called the name of the well Esek; because they contended with him. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 herdmen herdmen NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Gerar Gerar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 strove strive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 Isaac Isaac PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod:poss _ _ 9 's 's PART POS _ 8 case _ _ 10 herdmen herdmen NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 13 : : PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 14 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 15 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 18 ours ours PRON PRP Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 ccomp _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ 20 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 21 And and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 called call VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 well well NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 29 Esek Esek PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 appos _ _ 30 ; ; PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 31 because because SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 32 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 contended contend VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 advcl _ _ 34 with with ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **strive** | past | the herdmen of Gerar | | | | | with Isaac's herdmen | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | the herdmen of Gerar *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** | present | the water | ours | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **call** | past | Isaac | the name of the well | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient | | 5 | **contend** | past | wells *= well* | | | | | with Isaac | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with he=Co-Agent | | 6 | **name** | | | the well | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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} וַיָּרִ֜יבוּ רֹעֵ֣י גְרָ֗ר עִם־רֹעֵ֥י יִצְחָ֛ק לֵאמֹ֖ר לָ֣נוּ הַמָּ֑יִם וַיִּקְרָ֤א שֵֽׁם־הַבְּאֵר֙ עֵ֔שֶׂק כִּ֥י הִֽתְעַשְּׂק֖וּ עִמּֽוֹ׃ [Genesis 26:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.26.20/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:753` 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. - ← previous: [Genesis 26:19 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.752/) - next →: [Genesis 26:21 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.754/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 26:20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.26.20/)