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title: Genesis 29:16 (JPS 1917) — Now Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder was Leah, and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel. Who acts: Laban, name. Genesis 29:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 29:16 · JPS 1917

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Now Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.

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**Who acts:** Laban, name · **What happens:** have, be, name · **To what, where:** two daughters, Leah, Rachel, younger

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This is Genesis 29:16 · 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 (Laban, name), 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:867
# text = Now Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Laban	Laban	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	elder	elder	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	nmod	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	Leah	Leah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	younger	younger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	Rachel	Rachel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **have** | past | Laban | two daughters |  |  | now |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the name of the elder | Leah and Rachel |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | past | the name of the younger | Rachel |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **name** |  |  | the younger |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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וּלְלָבָ֖ן שְׁתֵּ֣י בָנ֑וֹת שֵׁ֤ם הַגְּדֹלָה֙ לֵאָ֔ה וְשֵׁ֥ם הַקְּטַנָּ֖ה רָחֵֽל׃

[Genesis 29:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.29.16/)

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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:867` 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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