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title: Genesis 35:16 (JPS 1917) — And they journeyed from Beth-el; and there was still some way to com… · tree and pragmatics
description: And they journeyed from Beth-el; and there was still some way to come to Ephrath; and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour. Who acts: kings, way, Rachel. Genesis 35:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 35:16 · JPS 1917

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And they journeyed from Beth-el; and there was still some way to come to Ephrath; and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour.

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**Who acts:** kings, way, Rachel · **What happens:** journey, be, come, travail, have · **To what, where:** Beth, Ephrath, hard labour

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This is Genesis 35:16 · 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 (kings, way, Rachel), 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:1104
# text = And they journeyed from Beth-el; and there was still some way to come to Ephrath; and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	journeyed	journey	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Beth	Beth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	_
7	el	el	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	there	there	PRON	EX	_	11	expl	_	_
11	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	still	still	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
14	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Ephrath	Ephrath	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	Rachel	Rachel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	travailed	travail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
27	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	labour	labour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **journey** | past | kings *= king* |  |  | Beth |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from beth=Trajectory |
| 2 | **be** | past | some way |  |  | there | still |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | to-infinitive | some way *not said here* |  |  | Ephrath |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to ephrath=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **travail** | past | Rachel |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **have** | past | Rachel | hard labour |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent labour=Patient |

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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}

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וַיִּסְעוּ֙ מִבֵּ֣ית אֵ֔ל בֵּ֣ית אֵ֔ל וַֽיְהִי־ע֥וֹד כִּבְרַת־הָאָ֖רֶץ לָב֣וֹא אֶפְרָ֑תָה וַתֵּ֥לֶד רָחֵ֖ל וַתְּקַ֥שׁ בְּלִדְתָּֽהּ׃

[Genesis 35:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.35.16/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:1104` 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.

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