--- title: Genesis 26:24 (JPS 1917) — Fear not, for I am with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy… · tree and pragmatics description: Fear not, for I am with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for My servant Abraham's sake.' Who acts: you, I. 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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 (you, I), 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:760 # text = Fear not, for I am with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for My servant Abraham's sake.' 1 Fear fear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 2 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 1 advmod _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 4 for for SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 5 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 6 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 1 advcl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 bless bless VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 conj _ _ 13 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 12 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 multiply multiply VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 17 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 seed seed NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 for for ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 20 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 21 servant servant NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod:poss _ _ 22 Abraham Abraham PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nmod:poss _ _ 23 's 's PART POS _ 22 case _ _ 24 sake sake NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ 26 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: promise - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **fear** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **is** | present | I | | | | | with thee | tree rules | | 3 | **bless** | future | you *not said here* | thee | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme | | 4 | **multiply** | infinitive | you *not said here* | thy seed | | | | for My Abraham's servant's sake | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Theme | 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} וַיֵּרָ֨א אֵלָ֤יו יְהוָה֙ בַּלַּ֣יְלָה הַה֔וּא וַיֹּ֕אמֶר אָנֹכִ֕י אֱלֹהֵ֖י אַבְרָהָ֣ם אָבִ֑יךָ אַל־תִּירָא֙ כִּֽי־אִתְּךָ֣ אָנֹ֔כִי וּבֵֽרַכְתִּ֙יךָ֙ וְהִרְבֵּיתִ֣י אֶֽת־זַרְעֲךָ֔ בַּעֲב֖וּר אַבְרָהָ֥ם עַבְדִּֽי׃ [Genesis 26:24: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.26.24/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. [And the LORD appeared unto him the same night, and said: 'I am the God of Abraham thy father.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.759/) 2. **Fear not, for I am with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for My servant Abraham's sake.'** **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:760` 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 26:24 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.759/) - next →: [Genesis 26:25 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.761/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 26:24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.26.24/)