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title: Genesis 28:5 (JPS 1917) — And Isaac sent away Jacob; and he went to Paddan-aram unto Laban, so… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Isaac sent away Jacob; and he went to Paddan-aram unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother. Who acts: Isaac. Genesis 28:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 28:5 · JPS 1917

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And Isaac sent away Jacob; and he went to Paddan-aram unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother.

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**Who acts:** Isaac · **What happens:** send away, go · **To what, where:** Jacob, Paddan aram

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This is Genesis 28:5 · 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 (Isaac), 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:830
# text = And Isaac sent away Jacob; and he went to Paddan-aram unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Isaac	Isaac	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	Jacob	Jacob	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	Paddan	Paddan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	_
13	aram	aram	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Laban	Laban	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Bethuel	Bethuel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Aramean	Aramean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Rebekah	Rebekah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
28	Jacob	Jacob	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod:poss	_	_
29	's	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
31	Esau	Esau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
32	's	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	_
33	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
34	.	.	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 | **send away** | past | Isaac | Jacob |  |  |  | away *property* | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jacob=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | past | Isaac |  |  | Paddan aram |  | unto Laban | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to aram=Initial\_Location |

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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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וַיִּשְׁלַ֤ח יִצְחָק֙ אֶֽת־יַעֲקֹ֔ב וַיֵּ֖לֶךְ פַּדֶּ֣נָֽה אֲרָ֑םפַּדֶּ֣נָֽה אֲרָ֑ם פַּדֶּ֣נָֽה אֲרָ֑ם אֶל־לָבָ֤ן בֶּן־בְּתוּאֵל֙ הָֽאֲרַמִּ֔י אֲחִ֣י רִבְקָ֔ה אֵ֥ם יַעֲקֹ֖ב וְעֵשָֽׂו׃

[Genesis 28:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.28.5/)

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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:830` 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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