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title: Jacob wrestled all night with a mysterious man and was renamed Israe… — Abraham, Isaac and Jacob · tree and pragmatics
description: Jacob wrestled all night with a mysterious man and was renamed Israel, a name often explained as "he struggles with God". Who acts: Jacob. A sentence of the lesson «Abraham, Isaac and Jacob» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, sentence 16

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Jacob wrestled all night with a mysterious man and was renamed Israel, a name often explained as "he struggles with God".

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**Who acts:** Jacob · **What happens:** wrestle, rename, explain, struggle · **To what, where:** name · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Abraham, Isaac and Jacob» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jacob), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:004-abraham-isaac-and-jacob.lesson:16
# text = Jacob wrestled all night with a mysterious man and was renamed Israel, a name often explained as "he struggles with God".
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 004-abraham-isaac-and-jacob.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Jacob	Jacob	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wrestled	wrestle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	mysterious	mysterious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	renamed	rename	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
12	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
16	often	often	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	explained	explain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	struggles	struggle	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:ccomp
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wrestle** | past | Jacob |  |  |  | night | with a mysterious man | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with man=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **rename** | past · passive | Jacob *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP» |
| 3 | **explain** *speech: assert* | participle |  | a name *not said here* |  |  |  | often *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **struggle** *in a quote* | present | Jacob |  |  |  |  | with God | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with god=Co-Agent |

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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.

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**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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