--- title: Genesis 28:16 (JPS 1917) — And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said: 'Surely the LORD is… · tree and pragmatics description: And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said: 'Surely the LORD is in this place; and I knew it not.' Who acts: Jacob, LORD, I. Genesis 28:16 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.843/) [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 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/28/) / [28:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.28.16/) / JPS 1 # Genesis 28:16 · JPS 1917 And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said: 'Surely the LORD is in this place; and I knew it not.' **Who acts:** Jacob, LORD, I · **What happens:** awake, say, be, not know, sleep · **To what, where:** sleep, place · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is Genesis 28:16 · 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, LORD, I), 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:843 # text = And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said: 'Surely the LORD is in this place; and I knew it not.' 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 Jacob Jacob PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 awaked awake VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 out out ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 of of 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 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 13 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 14 Surely surely ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 20 det _ _ 20 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 ccomp _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 28 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: express - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=express | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **awake** | past | Jacob | | | Jacob's sleep | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out sleep=Location | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Jacob | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | the LORD | | | this place | | surely *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **know** | past | I | place | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | | 5 | **sleep** | | Jacob | | | | | | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent | 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} וַיִּיקַ֣ץ יַעֲקֹב֮ מִשְּׁנָתוֹ֒ וַיֹּ֕אמֶר אָכֵן֙ יֵ֣שׁ יְהוָ֔ה בַּמָּק֖וֹם הַזֶּ֑ה וְאָנֹכִ֖י לֹ֥א יָדָֽעְתִּי׃ [Genesis 28:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.28.16/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:843` 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 28:15 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.842/) - next →: [Genesis 28:17 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.844/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 28:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.28.16/)