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title: Genesis 30:14 (JPS 1917) — And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them unto his mother Leah. Who acts: Reuben. Genesis 30:14 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 30:14 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them unto his mother Leah.

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**Who acts:** Reuben · **What happens:** go, find, bring · **To what, where:** mandrakes, field

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This is Genesis 30:14 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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 (Reuben), 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:900
# text = And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them unto his mother Leah.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Reuben	Reuben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	wheat	wheat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	harvest	harvest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	mandrakes	mandrake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	Leah	Leah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **go** | past | Reuben |  |  |  | day |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | past | Reuben *not said here* | mandrakes |  | the field |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mandrake=Topic |
| 3 | **bring** | past | Reuben *not said here* | mandrakes *= mandrake* |  |  |  | unto Reuben's mother | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

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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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וַיֵּ֨לֶךְ רְאוּבֵ֜ן בִּימֵ֣י קְצִיר־חִטִּ֗ים וַיִּמְצָ֤א דֽוּדָאִים֙ בַּשָּׂדֶ֔ה וַיָּבֵ֣א אֹתָ֔ם אֶל־לֵאָ֖ה אִמּ֑וֹ וַתֹּ֤אמֶר רָחֵל֙ אֶל־לֵאָ֔ה תְּנִי־נָ֣א לִ֔י מִדּוּדָאֵ֖י בְּנֵֽךְ׃

[Genesis 30:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.30.14/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them unto his mother Leah.**
2. [Then Rachel said to Leah: 'Give me, I pray thee, of thy son's mandrakes.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.901/)

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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:900` 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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