--- title: Genesis 26:25 (JPS 1917) — And he builded an altar there, and called upon the name of the LORD,… · tree and pragmatics description: And he builded an altar there, and called upon the name of the LORD, and pitched his tent there; and there Isaac's servants digged a well. Who acts: LORD, servants. 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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 (LORD, servants), 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:761 # text = And he builded an altar there, and called upon the name of the LORD, and pitched his tent there; and there Isaac's servants digged a well. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 builded build VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 altar altar NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 called call VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 10 upon upon ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 pitched pitch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 19 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 tent tent NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 18 advmod _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 24 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 28 advmod _ _ 25 Isaac Isaac PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nmod:poss _ _ 26 's 's PART POS _ 25 case _ _ 27 servants servant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 28 digged dig VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 well well NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **build** | past | LORD | a altar | | there | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent altar=Product | | 2 | **call** | past | LORD *not said here* | | | | | upon the name of the LORD | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **pitch** | past | LORD *not said here* | LORD's tent | | there | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tent=Theme | | 4 | **dig** | past | Isaac's servants | a well | | there | | | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent well=Theme | | 5 | **name** | | | the LORD | | | | | 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} וַיִּ֧בֶן שָׁ֣ם מִזְבֵּ֗חַ וַיִּקְרָא֙ בְּשֵׁ֣ם יְהוָ֔ה וַיֶּט־שָׁ֖ם אָהֳל֑וֹ וַיִּכְרוּ־שָׁ֥ם עַבְדֵי־יִצְחָ֖ק בְּאֵֽר׃ [Genesis 26:25: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.26.25/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:761` 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.760/) - next →: [Genesis 26:26 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.762/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 26:25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.26.25/)