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title: Genesis 28:7 (JPS 1917) — and that Jacob hearkened to his father and his mother, and was gone… · tree and pragmatics
description: and that Jacob hearkened to his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan-aram; Who acts: Jacob. Genesis 28:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 28:7 · JPS 1917

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and that Jacob hearkened to his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan-aram;

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**Who acts:** Jacob · **What happens:** hearken, go · **To what, where:** Paddan aram

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This is Genesis 28:7 · 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 (Jacob), 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:832
# text = and that Jacob hearkened to his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan-aram;
1	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	Jacob	Jacob	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	hearkened	hearken	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	ccomp	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	Paddan	Paddan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	_
18	aram	aram	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hearken** | past | Jacob |  |  |  |  | to Jacob's father and Jacob's mother | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | past · passive | Jacob *not said here* |  |  | Paddan aram |  |  | 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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וַיִּשְׁמַ֣ע יַעֲקֹ֔ב אֶל־אָבִ֖יו וְאֶל־אִמּ֑וֹ וַיֵּ֖לֶךְ פַּדֶּ֥נָֽה אֲרָֽםפַּדֶּ֥נָֽה אֲרָֽם פַּדֶּ֥נָֽה אֲרָֽם׃

[Genesis 28:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.28.7/)

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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:832` 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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