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title: Genesis 28:2 (JPS 1917) — Arise, go to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's fathe… · tree and pragmatics
description: Arise, go to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother's brother. Who acts: you. Genesis 28:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 28:2 · JPS 1917

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Arise, go to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother's brother.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** arise, go, take · **To what, where:** Paddan aram, wife, thee

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This is Genesis 28:2 · 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 (you), 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:827
# text = Arise, go to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother's brother.
1	Arise	arise	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	Paddan	Paddan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	_
7	aram	aram	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Bethuel	Bethuel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
21	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	20	iobj	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	thence	thence	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
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	23	nmod	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Laban	Laban	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod:poss	_	_
33	's	's	PART	POS	_	32	case	_	_
34	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	appos	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **arise** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | Paddan aram |  | to the house of Bethuel | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to aram=Initial\_Location to house=Destination |
| 3 | **take** | infinitive | you *not said here* | a wife of the daughters of Laban | thee |  |  | thence *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument thou=Theme wife=Destination |

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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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ק֥וּם לֵךְ֙ פַּדֶּ֣נָֽה אֲרָ֔םפַּדֶּ֣נָֽה אֲרָ֔ם פַּדֶּ֣נָֽה אֲרָ֔ם בֵּ֥יתָה בְתוּאֵ֖ל אֲבִ֣י אִמֶּ֑ךָ וְקַח־לְךָ֤ מִשָּׁם֙ אִשָּׁ֔ה מִבְּנ֥וֹת לָבָ֖ן אֲחִ֥י אִמֶּֽךָ׃

[Genesis 28:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.28.2/)

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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:827` 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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