--- title: Genesis 30:9 (JPS 1917) — When Leah saw that she had left off bearing, she took Zilpah her han… · tree and pragmatics description: When Leah saw that she had left off bearing, she took Zilpah her handmaid, and gave her to Jacob to wife. Who acts: Leah. 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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 (Leah), 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:895 # text = When Leah saw that she had left off bearing, she took Zilpah her handmaid, and gave her to Jacob to wife. 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 3 mark _ _ 2 Leah Leah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 4 that that SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 5 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 6 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 ccomp _ _ 8 off off ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ _ 9 bearing bearing VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 xcomp _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 Zilpah Zilpah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 iobj _ _ 14 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 handmaid handmaid NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 19 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 Jacob Jacob PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | past | Leah | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **leave off** | past · perfect | Leah | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **bearing** | gerund | Leah *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **take** | past | Leah | Leah's handmaid | Zilpah | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument zilpah=Theme handmaid=Destination | | 5 | **give** | past | Leah *not said here* | handmaid | Jacob | | | to wife | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Theme to jacob=Recipient | 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} וַתֵּ֣רֶא לֵאָ֔ה כִּ֥י עָמְדָ֖ה מִלֶּ֑דֶת וַתִּקַּח֙ אֶת־זִלְפָּ֣ה שִׁפְחָתָ֔הּ וַתִּתֵּ֥ן אֹתָ֛הּ לְיַעֲקֹ֖ב לְאִשָּֽׁה׃ [Genesis 30:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.30.9/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:895` 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 30:8 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.894/) - next →: [Genesis 30:10 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.896/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 30:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.30.9/)