--- title: Genesis 33:17 (JPS 1917) — And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built him a house, and made boot… · tree and pragmatics description: And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built him a house, and made booths for his cattle. Who acts: Jacob. Genesis 33:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree 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/jps/GEN.1050/) [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 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/33/) / [33:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.33.17/) / JPS 1 # Genesis 33:17 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built him a house, and made booths for his cattle. **Who acts:** Jacob · **What happens:** journey, build, make · **To what, where:** Succoth, house, Jacob, booths This is Genesis 33:17 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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), 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:1050 # text = And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built him a house, and made booths for his cattle. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 Jacob Jacob PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 journeyed journey VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Succoth Succoth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 built build VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 9 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 iobj _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 15 booths booth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 16 for for ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 cattle cattle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **journey** | past | Jacob | | Succoth | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to succoth=Destination | | 2 | **build** | past | Jacob *not said here* | a house | Jacob | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary house=Product | | 3 | **make** | past | Jacob *not said here* | booths | | | | for Jacob's cattle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent booth=Product for cattle=Beneficiary | 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} וְיַעֲקֹב֙ נָסַ֣ע סֻכֹּ֔תָה וַיִּ֥בֶן ל֖וֹ בָּ֑יִת וּלְמִקְנֵ֙הוּ֙ עָשָׂ֣ה סֻכֹּ֔ת עַל־כֵּ֛ן קָרָ֥א שֵׁם־הַמָּק֖וֹם סֻכּֽוֹת׃ס [Genesis 33:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.33.17/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. **And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built him a house, and made booths for his cattle.** 2. [Therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1051/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:1050` 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 33:16 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1049/) - next →: [Genesis 33:17 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1051/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 33:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.33.17/)