--- title: Genesis 29:15 — And Laban said unto Jacob: 'Because thou art my brother, shouldest t… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: And Laban said unto Jacob: 'Because thou art my brother, shouldest thou therefore serve me for nought? tell me, what shall thy wages be?' Who acts: Laban, thou, wages. Genesis 29:15 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Onkelos, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.29.15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Torah](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/) / [Genesis](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/) / [chapter 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/29/) / 29:15 # Genesis 29:15 בְּרֵאשִׁית **Who acts:** Laban, thou, wages · **What happens:** say, be, serve, tell · **To what, where:** brother, me · **Speech:** someone speaks in this verse This is Genesis 29:15 from Mova's open Bible corpus, the Tanakh in three languages (The Torah). The page gives the verse in Hebrew as the Westminster Leningrad Codex has it, its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, built from MACULA Hebrew — and its pragmatics: who acts — Laban, thou, wages — and what happens in the verse to brother, me, read clause by clause by Mova's frames. Beside it stand the Aramaic of Targum Onkelos and the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, each English sentence with a tree of its own. It is one of the 50 chapters of Genesis on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between. וַיֹּ֤אמֶר לָבָן֙ לְיַעֲקֹ֔ב הֲכִי־אָחִ֣י אַ֔תָּה וַעֲבַדְתַּ֖נִי חִנָּ֑ם הַגִּ֥ידָה לִּ֖י מַה־מַּשְׂכֻּרְתֶּֽךָ׃ [And Laban said unto Jacob: 'Because thou art my brother, shouldest thou therefore serve me for nought? tell me, what shall thy wages be?'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.866/) ## The tree {#tree} Right to left, as the Hebrew is read; a prefix or suffix is a word of its own, and a line under the words joins those written as one. Under each word its part of speech and MACULA's English gloss. ```conllu rtl gloss # sent_id = wlc:GEN:810 # text = וַיֹּ֤אמֶר לָבָן֙ לְיַעֲקֹ֔ב הֲכִי־אָחִ֣י אַ֔תָּה וַעֲבַדְתַּ֖נִי חִנָּ֑ם הַגִּ֥ידָה לִּ֖י מַה־מַּשְׂכֻּרְתֶּֽךָ׃ # verse = GEN.29.15 1-2 וַיֹּ֤אמֶר _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 2 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_29:15!1|MId=o010290150011|Strong=2050b 2 יֹּ֤אמֶר אָמַר VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=he.said|Ref=GEN_29:15!1|MId=o010290150012|Strong=0559|Frame=A0:010290150021;|Type=wayyiqtol 3 לָבָן֙ לָבָן PROPN _ _ 2 nsubj _ Gloss=Laban|Ref=GEN_29:15!2|MId=o010290150021|Strong=3837 4-5 לְיַעֲקֹ֔ב _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 4 לְ לְ ADP _ _ 5 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=GEN_29:15!3|MId=o010290150031|Strong=3807a 5 יַעֲקֹ֔ב יַעֲקֹב PROPN _ _ 2 obl _ Gloss=Jacob|Ref=GEN_29:15!3|MId=o010290150032|Strong=3290 6-7 הֲכִי־ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 6 הֲ הֲ PART _ _ 12 advmod _ Gloss=?|Ref=GEN_29:15!4|MId=o010290150041|Strong=1886b|Type=interrogative 7 כִי־ כִּי SCONJ _ _ 8 mark _ Gloss=(dm)|Ref=GEN_29:15!4|MId=o010290150042|Strong=3588 8-9 אָחִ֣י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 8 אָח אָח NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 12 advcl _ Gloss=relative|Ref=GEN_29:15!5|MId=o010290150051|Strong=0251 9 ִ֣י הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ Gloss=my|Ref=GEN_29:15!5|MId=o010290150052|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal 10 אַ֔תָּה אַתָּה PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ Gloss=[are].you|Ref=GEN_29:15!6|MId=o010290150061|Strong=0859|Type=personal 11-13 וַעֲבַדְתַּ֖נִי _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 11 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 12 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_29:15!7|MId=o010290150071|Strong=2050b 12 עֲבַדְתַּ֖ עָבַד VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=2 2 ccomp _ Gloss=you|Ref=GEN_29:15!7|MId=o010290150072|Strong=5647|Frame=A0:010290150032;A1:010290150073;|Type=weqatal 13 נִי הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ Gloss=will.serve.me|Ref=GEN_29:15!7|MId=o010290150073|Strong=5204a|Type=pronominal 14 חִנָּ֑ם חִנָּם ADV _ _ 12 advmod _ Gloss=for.nothing|Ref=GEN_29:15!8|MId=o010290150081|Strong=2600 15-16 הַגִּ֥ידָה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 15 הַגִּ֥יד נָגַד VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=HIPHIL|Number=Sing|Person=2 12 parataxis _ Gloss=tell|Ref=GEN_29:15!9|MId=o010290150091|Strong=5046|Frame=A0:010290150032;|Type=imperative 16 ָה ה X _ _ 15 nmod _ Gloss=|Ref=GEN_29:15!9|MId=o010290150092|Strong=1886j|Type=paragogic_he 17-18 לִּ֖י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 17 לּ לְ ADP _ _ 18 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=GEN_29:15!10|MId=o010290150101|Strong=3807a 18 ִ֖י הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 obl _ Gloss=me|Ref=GEN_29:15!10|MId=o010290150102|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal 19 מַה־ מָה PRON _ PronType=Int 12 parataxis _ Gloss=what?|Ref=GEN_29:15!11|MId=o010290150111|Strong=4100|Type=interrogative|SpaceAfter=No 20-21 מַּשְׂכֻּרְתֶּֽךָ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 20 מַּשְׂכֻּרְתּ מַשְׂכֹּרֶת NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ Gloss=wage[s]|Ref=GEN_29:15!12|MId=o010290150121|Strong=4909 21 ֶֽךָ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ Gloss=[is].your|Ref=GEN_29:15!12|MId=o010290150122|Strong=3509b|Type=pronominal 22 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 21 punct _ Ref=GEN_29:15!12 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: wh-question - act: ask - voice: character - speech: a frame and its quote - negation: no - indirect: yes - the frame alone: decl · narrate · none | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | יֹּאמֶר *he said* | wayyiqtol · qal | לָבָן *Laban* | | | | | עֲבַדְתַּ *you* | weqatal · qal | יַעֲקֹב *Jacob* | נִי *will serve me* | | | | הַגִּיד *tell* | imperative · hiphil | יַעֲקֹב *Jacob* | | | | MACULA's semantic frames: for each verb the head word of each participant. A0 is the one who acts, A1 what the act is done to or is about, A2 a further participant; AA, with a causative verb, the one who makes it happen. ## Targum Onkelos {#onkelos} וַאֲמַר לָבָן לְיַעֲקֹב הֲמִדְּאָחִי אַתְּ וְתִפְלְחִנַּנִּי מַגָּן חַוִּי לִי מָה אַגְרָךְ The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet. ## English, JPS 1917 {#english} Each sentence on its own page, with its tree and pragmatics. A sentence that runs on into the next verse is listed under the verse it begins in. 1. [And Laban said unto Jacob: 'Because thou art my brother, shouldest thou therefore serve me for nought? tell me, what shall thy wages be?'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.866/) **Hebrew text:** Westminster Leningrad Codex, public domain. **Tree, glosses and frames:** MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets, available at [github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew](https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew/), [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); converted to Universal Dependencies by Mova (words in text order, a prefix its own word). **Speech act:** Mova's rules on the MACULA words (`macula prag`). **Targum:** Onkelos (Torat Emet), Jonathan and the Writings (Mikraot Gedolot), from Sefaria, public domain. **English:** JPS 1917, public domain; trees and speech acts by Mova's cycle, frames by Mova's reader (Elamur Cosmic License). 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