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title: Genesis 30:14 (JPS 1917) — Then Rachel said to Leah: 'Give me, I pray thee, of thy son's mandra… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Rachel said to Leah: 'Give me, I pray thee, of thy son's mandrakes.' Who acts: Rachel, I. 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 2 of 2

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Then Rachel said to Leah: 'Give me, I pray thee, of thy son's mandrakes.'

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**Who acts:** Rachel, I · **What happens:** say, give, pray · **To what, where:** Leah, me, thee · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Genesis 30:14 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 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 (Rachel, 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:901
# text = Then Rachel said to Leah: 'Give me, I pray thee, of thy son's mandrakes.'
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Rachel	Rachel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Leah	Leah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	iobj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	pray	pray	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
13	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	mandrakes	mandrake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
21	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Rachel |  | Leah |  | then |  | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to leah=Experiencer clause=Topic |
| 2 | **give** | infinitive |  |  | me |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 3 | **pray** | present | I | thee |  |  |  | of thy son's mandrakes | tree rules |

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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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.900/)
2. **Then Rachel said to Leah: 'Give me, I pray thee, of thy son's mandrakes.'**

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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:901` 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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