--- title: Genesis 27:46 (JPS 1917) — If Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the… · tree and pragmatics description: If Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me?' Who acts: Jacob, life. Genesis 27:46 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.825/) [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 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/27/) / [27:46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.27.46/) / JPS 2 # Genesis 27:46 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 If Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me?' **Who acts:** Jacob, life · **What happens:** take, do · **To what, where:** wife, good, me This is Genesis 27:46 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 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, life), 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:825 # text = If Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me?' 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 Jacob Jacob PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 take take VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 daughters daughter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 Heth Heth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 14 case _ _ 13 as as ADP IN _ 12 fixed _ _ 14 these this PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 8 nmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 daughters daughter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 23 what what DET WDT PronType=Int 24 det _ _ 24 good good NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 25 shall shall AUX MD Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 26 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 29 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 iobj _ _ 30 ? ? PUNCT . _ 28 punct _ _ 31 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: ask - voice: character - polarity: none - indirect: yes - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | Jacob | | a wife of the daughters of Heth such these | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument wife=Destination | | 2 | **do** | shall | my life | what good | me | | | | tree rules | 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} וַתֹּ֤אמֶר רִבְקָה֙ אֶל־יִצְחָ֔ק קַ֣צְתִּי בְחַיַּ֔י מִפְּנֵ֖י בְּנ֣וֹת חֵ֑ת אִם־לֹקֵ֣חַ יַ֠עֲקֹב אִשָּׁ֨ה מִבְּנֽוֹת־חֵ֤ת כָּאֵ֙לֶּה֙ מִבְּנ֣וֹת הָאָ֔רֶץ לָ֥מָּה לִּ֖י חַיִּֽים׃ [Genesis 27:46: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.27.46/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. [And Rebekah said to Isaac: 'I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.824/) 2. **If Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me?'** **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:825` 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 27:46 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.824/) - next →: [Genesis 28:1 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.826/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 27:46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.27.46/)