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title: Genesis 31:22 — And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob was fled. · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics
description: And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob was fled. Who acts: Jacob. Genesis 31:22 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Onkelos, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 31:22 בְּרֵאשִׁית

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**Who acts:** Jacob · **What happens:** tell, flee · **To what, where:** face, Laban · **Speech:** someone speaks in this verse

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This is Genesis 31:22 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 — and what happens in the verse to face, Laban, 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.

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וַיֻּגַּ֥ד לְלָבָ֖ן בַּיּ֣וֹם הַשְּׁלִישִׁ֑י כִּ֥י בָרַ֖ח יַעֲקֹֽב׃

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[And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob was fled.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.958/)

## The tree {#tree}

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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:895
# text = וַיֻּגַּ֥ד לְלָבָ֖ן בַּיּ֣וֹם הַשְּׁלִישִׁ֑י כִּ֥י בָרַ֖ח יַעֲקֹֽב׃
# verse = GEN.31.22
1-2	וַיֻּגַּ֥ד	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
1	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	2	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_31:22!1|MId=o010310220011|Strong=2050b
2	יֻּגַּ֥ד	נָגַד	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=HOPHAL|Number=Sing|Person=3	0	root	_	Gloss=it.was.told|Ref=GEN_31:22!1|MId=o010310220012|Strong=5046|Frame=A1:010310220061;|Type=wayyiqtol
3-4	לְלָבָ֖ן	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
3	לְ	לְ	ADP	_	_	4	case	_	Gloss=to|Ref=GEN_31:22!2|MId=o010310220021|Strong=3807a
4	לָבָ֖ן	לָבָן	PROPN	_	_	2	obl	_	Gloss=Laban|Ref=GEN_31:22!2|MId=o010310220022|Strong=3837
5-7	בַּיּ֣וֹם	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
5	בַּ	בְּ	ADP	_	_	7	case	_	Gloss=on|Ref=GEN_31:22!3|MId=o010310220031|Strong=0871a
6	ה	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	7	det	_	Gloss=the|Ref=GEN_31:22!3|MId=o010310220031ה|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
7	יּ֣וֹם	יוֹם	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	2	obl	_	Gloss=day|Ref=GEN_31:22!3|MId=o010310220032|Strong=3117
8-9	הַשְּׁלִישִׁ֑י	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
8	הַ	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	9	det	_	Gloss=(the)|Ref=GEN_31:22!4|MId=o010310220041|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
9	שְּׁלִישִׁ֑י	שְׁלִישִׁי	NUM	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	7	nummod	_	Gloss=third|Ref=GEN_31:22!4|MId=o010310220042|Strong=7992|Type=ordinal_number
10	כִּ֥י	כִּי	SCONJ	_	_	11	mark	_	Gloss=(dm).that|Ref=GEN_31:22!5|MId=o010310220051|Strong=3588
11	בָרַ֖ח	בָּרַח	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3	2	nsubj	_	Gloss=he.had.fled|Ref=GEN_31:22!6|MId=o010310220061|Strong=1272|Frame=A0:010310220071;|Type=qatal
12	יַעֲקֹֽב	יַעֲקֹב	PROPN	_	_	11	nsubj	_	Gloss=Jacob|Ref=GEN_31:22!7|MId=o010310220071|Strong=3290|SpaceAfter=No
13	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	_	12	punct	_	Ref=GEN_31:22!7
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- speech: narration
- negation: no

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| verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| יֻּגַּד *it was told* | wayyiqtol · hophal |  | בָרַח *he had fled* |  |  |
| בָרַח *he had fled* | qatal · qal | יַעֲקֹֽב *Jacob* |  |  |  |

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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}

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וְאִתְחַוָא לְלָבָן בְּיוֹמָא תְלִיתָאָה אֲרֵי אֲזַל יַעֲקֹב

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The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet.

## English, JPS 1917 {#english}

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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.

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1. [And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob was fled.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.958/)

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**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:895`.

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