--- title: Genesis 32:30 (JPS 1917) — And Jacob asked him, and said: 'Tell me, I pray thee, thy name.' And… · tree and pragmatics description: And Jacob asked him, and said: 'Tell me, I pray thee, thy name.' And he said: 'Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name?' And he blessed him there. Who acts: Jacob, I, Esau, it. 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And he blessed him there. **Who acts:** Jacob, I, Esau, it, thou, thy · **What happens:** ask, say, tell, pray, be, bless · **To what, where:** Esau, name, me, thee, Jacob · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is Genesis 32:30 · JPS 1917 in the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, from Mova's open Bible corpus. 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 (Jacob, I, Esau, it), 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:1029 # text = And Jacob asked him, and said: 'Tell me, I pray thee, thy name.' And he said: 'Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name?' And he blessed him there. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 Jacob Jacob PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 9 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 10 Tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 ccomp _ _ 11 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 iobj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 pray pray VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 15 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 14 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ 20 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 21 And and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 24 : : PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 25 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ _ 26 Wherefore wherefore ADV WRB PronType=Int 23 ccomp _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 29 that that SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 30 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 32 nsubj _ _ 31 dost do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 csubj _ _ 33 after after ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 36 ? ? PUNCT . _ 26 punct _ _ 37 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ _ 38 And and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 39 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 blessed bless VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 41 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 obj _ _ 42 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 40 advmod _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: wh-question - act: ask - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Jacob | | Esau | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Jacob *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | | thy name | me | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient name=Topic | | 4 | **pray** | present | I | thee | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Esau | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is** | present | it | | | | | wherefore *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present · do-support | thou | | | | after my name | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **bless** | past | Esau | Jacob | | there | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 9 | **name** | | thy | | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | | 10 | **name** | | my | | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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} וַיִּשְׁאַ֣ל יַעֲקֹ֗ב וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ הַגִּֽידָה־נָּ֣א שְׁמֶ֔ךָ וַיֹּ֕אמֶר לָ֥מָּה זֶּ֖ה תִּשְׁאַ֣ל לִשְׁמִ֑י וַיְבָ֥רֶךְ אֹת֖וֹ שָֽׁם׃ [Genesis 32:30: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.32.30/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:1029` 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 32:29 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1028/) - next →: [Genesis 32:31 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1030/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 32:30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.32.30/)