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title: Genesis 24:31 (JPS 1917) — And he said: 'Come in, thou blessed of the LORD; wherefore standest… · tree and pragmatics
description: And he said: 'Come in, thou blessed of the LORD; wherefore standest thou without? for I have cleared the house, and made room for the camels.' Who acts: Laban, thou, I. Genesis 24:31 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 24:31 · JPS 1917

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And he said: 'Come in, thou blessed of the LORD; wherefore standest thou without? for I have cleared the house, and made room for the camels.'

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**Who acts:** Laban, thou, I · **What happens:** say, come in, stand, clear, make · **To what, where:** house, room · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Genesis 24:31 · 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 (Laban, thou, I), 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:652
# text = And he said: 'Come in, thou blessed of the LORD; wherefore standest thou without? for I have cleared the house, and made room for the camels.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
5	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
7	in	in	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	vocative	_	_
10	blessed	bless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	wherefore	wherefore	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
16	standest	stand	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
17	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	nsubj	_	_
18	without	without	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
20	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	cleared	clear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	conj	_	_
29	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	camels	camel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
34	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: other
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=other

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Laban |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **come in** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | thou *vocative* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **stand** | present | thou |  |  |  |  | wherefore, without *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **clear** | present · perfect | I | the house |  |  |  |  | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent house=Source |
| 5 | **make** | participle | I *not said here* | room |  |  |  | for the camels | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent room=Product for camel=Asset |

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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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וַיֹּ֕אמֶר בּ֖וֹא בְּר֣וּךְ יְהוָ֑ה לָ֤מָּה תַעֲמֹד֙ בַּח֔וּץ וְאָנֹכִי֙ פִּנִּ֣יתִי הַבַּ֔יִת וּמָק֖וֹם לַגְּמַלִּֽים׃

[Genesis 24:31: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.24.31/)

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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:652` 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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