--- title: Genesis 29:20 — And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him bu… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her. Who acts: Jacob, eyes. Genesis 29:20 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.29.20/) [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/) / 29:20 # Genesis 29:20 בְּרֵאשִׁית **Who acts:** Jacob, eyes · **What happens:** serve, seem, have · **To what, where:** love, Rachel This is Genesis 29:20 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 — Jacob, eyes — and what happens in the verse to love, Rachel, 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. וַיַּעֲבֹ֧ד יַעֲקֹ֛ב בְּרָחֵ֖ל שֶׁ֣בַע שָׁנִ֑ים וַיִּהְי֤וּ בְעֵינָיו֙ כְּיָמִ֣ים אֲחָדִ֔ים בְּאַהֲבָת֖וֹ אֹתָֽהּ׃ [And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.871/) ## 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:815 # text = וַיַּעֲבֹ֧ד יַעֲקֹ֛ב בְּרָחֵ֖ל שֶׁ֣בַע שָׁנִ֑ים וַיִּהְי֤וּ בְעֵינָיו֙ כְּיָמִ֣ים אֲחָדִ֔ים בְּאַהֲבָת֖וֹ אֹתָֽהּ׃ # verse = GEN.29.20 1-2 וַיַּעֲבֹ֧ד _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 2 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_29:20!1|MId=o010290200011|Strong=2050b 2 יַּעֲבֹ֧ד עָבַד VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=he.served|Ref=GEN_29:20!1|MId=o010290200012|Strong=5647|Frame=A0:010290200021;|Type=wayyiqtol 3 יַעֲקֹ֛ב יַעֲקֹב PROPN _ _ 2 nsubj _ Gloss=Jacob|Ref=GEN_29:20!2|MId=o010290200021|Strong=3290 4-5 בְּרָחֵ֖ל _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 4 בְּ בְּ ADP _ _ 5 case _ Gloss=for|Ref=GEN_29:20!3|MId=o010290200031|Strong=0871a 5 רָחֵ֖ל רָחֵל PROPN _ _ 2 obl _ Gloss=Rachel|Ref=GEN_29:20!3|MId=o010290200032|Strong=7354 6 שֶׁ֣בַע שֶׁבַע NUM _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 7 nummod _ Gloss=seven|Ref=GEN_29:20!4|MId=o010290200041|Strong=7651|Type=cardinal_number 7 שָׁנִ֑ים שָׁנָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Plur 2 obl _ Gloss=years|Ref=GEN_29:20!5|MId=o010290200051|Strong=8141 8-9 וַיִּהְי֤וּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 8 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 9 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_29:20!6|MId=o010290200061|Strong=2050b 9 יִּהְי֤וּ הָיָה VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3 2 conj _ Gloss=they.were|Ref=GEN_29:20!6|MId=o010290200062|Strong=1961|Frame=A0:010290200051;|Type=wayyiqtol 10-12 בְעֵינָיו֙ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 10 בְ בְּ ADP _ _ 11 case _ Gloss=in|Ref=GEN_29:20!7|MId=o010290200071|Strong=0871a 11 עֵינָי עַיִן NOUN _ Number=Dual 9 obl _ Gloss=eyes|Ref=GEN_29:20!7|MId=o010290200072|Strong=5869 12 ו֙ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ Gloss=his|Ref=GEN_29:20!7|MId=o010290200073|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 13-14 כְּיָמִ֣ים _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 13 כְּ כְּ ADP _ _ 14 case _ Gloss=like|Ref=GEN_29:20!8|MId=o010290200081|Strong=3509a 14 יָמִ֣ים יוֹם NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 9 obl _ Gloss=days|Ref=GEN_29:20!8|MId=o010290200082|Strong=3117 15 אֲחָדִ֔ים אֶחָד NUM _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 14 nummod _ Gloss=one(s)|Ref=GEN_29:20!9|MId=o010290200091|Strong=0259|Type=cardinal_number 16-18 בְּאַהֲבָת֖וֹ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 16 בְּ בְּ ADP _ _ 17 case _ Gloss=in|Ref=GEN_29:20!10|MId=o010290200101|Strong=0871a 17 אַהֲבָת אֲהָבָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 9 obl _ Gloss=love|Ref=GEN_29:20!10|MId=o010290200102|Strong=0160 18 ֖וֹ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ Gloss=his|Ref=GEN_29:20!10|MId=o010290200103|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 19-20 אֹתָֽהּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 19 אֹת אֵת ADP _ _ 20 case _ Gloss=|Ref=GEN_29:20!11|MId=o010290200111|Strong=0853|Type=direct_object_marker 20 ָֽהּ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ Gloss=her|Ref=GEN_29:20!11|MId=o010290200112|Strong=1886d|Type=pronominal 21 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 20 punct _ Ref=GEN_29:20!11 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - speech: narration - negation: no | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | יַּעֲבֹד *he served* | wayyiqtol · qal | יַעֲקֹב *Jacob* | | | | | יִּהְיוּ *they were* | wayyiqtol · qal | שָׁנִים *years* | | | | 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} וּפְלַח יַעֲקֹב בְּרָחֵל שְׁבַע שְׁנִין וַהֲווֹ בְעֵינוֹהִי כְּיוֹמִין זְעִירִין כַּד רְחֵים יָתַהּ 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 Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.871/) **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). Hebrew sentence `wlc:GEN:815`. - ← previous: [Genesis 29:19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.29.19/) - next →: [Genesis 29:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.29.21/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/29/)