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title: Genesis 29:25 (JPS 1917) — And it came to pass in the morning that, behold, it was Leah; and he… · tree and pragmatics
description: And it came to pass in the morning that, behold, it was Leah; and he said to Laban: 'What is this thou hast done unto me? did not I serve with thee for Rachel? wherefore then hast thou beguiled me?' Who acts: handmaid, Laban, this, thou. Genesis 29:25 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Genesis 29:25 · JPS 1917

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And it came to pass in the morning that, behold, it was Leah; and he said to Laban: 'What is this thou hast done unto me? did not I serve with thee for Rachel? wherefore then hast thou beguiled me?'

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**Who acts:** handmaid, Laban, this, thou, I · **What happens:** come, pass, be, say, do, not serve · **To what, where:** handmaid, Leah, Laban, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Genesis 29:25 · 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 (handmaid, Laban, this, thou), 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:876
# text = And it came to pass in the morning that, behold, it was Leah; and he said to Laban: 'What is this thou hast done unto me? did not I serve with thee for Rachel? wherefore then hast thou beguiled me?'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	expl	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	15	discourse	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	Leah	Leah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	csubj	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Laban	Laban	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
23	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	_
24	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	19	ccomp	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
26	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	nsubj	_	_
27	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	29	nsubj	_	_
28	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	26	acl:relcl	_	_
30	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	obl	_	_
32	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
33	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
34	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	36	advmod	_	_
35	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	serve	serve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	parataxis	_	_
37	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	36	obl	_	_
39	for	for	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	Rachel	Rachel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
41	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	36	punct	_	_
42	wherefore	wherefore	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	46	advmod	_	_
43	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	46	advmod	_	_
44	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
45	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	46	nsubj	_	_
46	beguiled	beguile	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	parataxis	_	_
47	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	46	obj	_	_
48	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	46	punct	_	_
49	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: wh-question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past |  | handmaid |  |  | morning |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pass** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | past | handmaid | Leah |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Laban |  | Laban |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to laban=Recipient |
| 5 | **is a** | present | this |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **do** | present · perfect | thou |  |  |  |  | unto me | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **not** **serve** | past · do-support | I |  |  |  |  | with thee; for Rachel | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for rachel=Recipient |
| 8 | **beguile** | present · perfect | thou | me |  |  | then | wherefore *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer |

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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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וַיְהִ֣י בַבֹּ֔קֶר וְהִנֵּה־הִ֖וא לֵאָ֑ה וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֶל־לָבָ֗ן מַה־זֹּאת֙ עָשִׂ֣יתָ לִּ֔י הֲלֹ֤א בְרָחֵל֙ עָבַ֣דְתִּי עִמָּ֔ךְ וְלָ֖מָּה רִמִּיתָֽנִי׃

[Genesis 29:25: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.29.25/)

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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:876` 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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