--- title: Genesis 28:1 (JPS 1917) — And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said u… · tree and pragmatics description: And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him: 'Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan. Who acts: Isaac, Thou. 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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 (Isaac, Thou), 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:826 # text = And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him: 'Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 Isaac Isaac PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 called call VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 Jacob Jacob PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 blessed bless VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 8 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 charged charge VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 12 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 16 unto unto ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obl _ _ 18 : : PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 19 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ _ 20 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 23 nsubj _ _ 21 shalt shall AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 22 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 23 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 ccomp _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 daughters daughter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 Canaan Canaan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: request - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=request | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** | past | Isaac | | Jacob | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent jacob=Recipient | | 2 | **bless** | past | Isaac *not said here* | Jacob | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 3 | **charge** | past | Isaac *not said here* | Jacob | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location he=Theme | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Isaac *not said here* | | | | | unto Isaac | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **not** **take** | shall | Thou | | a wife of the daughters of Canaan | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument wife=Destination | 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} וַיִּקְרָ֥א יִצְחָ֛ק אֶֽל־יַעֲקֹ֖ב וַיְבָ֣רֶךְ אֹת֑וֹ וַיְצַוֵּ֙הוּ֙ וַיֹּ֣אמֶר ל֔וֹ לֹֽא־תִקַּ֥ח אִשָּׁ֖ה מִבְּנ֥וֹת כְּנָֽעַן׃ [Genesis 28:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.28.1/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:826` 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.825/) - next →: [Genesis 28:2 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.827/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 28:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.28.1/)