--- title: Genesis 30:31 (JPS 1917) — And he said: 'What shall I give thee?' And Jacob said: 'Thou shalt n… · tree and pragmatics description: And he said: 'What shall I give thee?' And Jacob said: 'Thou shalt not give me aught; if thou wilt do this thing for me, I will again feed thy flock and keep it. Who acts: LORD, I, Jacob, Thou. 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And Jacob said: 'Thou shalt not give me aught; if thou wilt do this thing for me, I will again feed thy flock and keep it. **Who acts:** LORD, I, Jacob, Thou · **What happens:** say, give, not give, do, feed, keep · **To what, where:** thee, aught, me, thing, flock · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is Genesis 30:31 · 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 (LORD, I, Jacob, 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:920 # text = And he said: 'What shall I give thee?' And Jacob said: 'Thou shalt not give me aught; if thou wilt do this thing for me, I will again feed thy flock and keep it. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 5 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 6 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 9 obj _ _ 7 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 8 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 ccomp _ _ 10 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 9 iobj _ _ 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ 12 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 13 And and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 Jacob Jacob PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 16 : : PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 17 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ _ 18 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 21 nsubj _ _ 19 shalt shall AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 20 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 21 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 ccomp _ _ 22 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 iobj _ _ 23 aught aught PRON NN PronType=Ind 21 obj _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 37 punct _ _ 25 if if SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 26 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 28 nsubj _ _ 27 wilt will AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 advcl _ _ 29 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 30 det _ _ 30 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 for for ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 obl _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 34 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 35 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 36 again again ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 feed feed VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 38 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 flock flock NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 conj _ _ 42 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 obj _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: offer - voice: character - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | LORD | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **give** | shall | I | | thee | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient what=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Jacob | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **not** **give** | shall | Thou | aught | me | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient aught=Theme | | 5 | **do** *a condition, not said to happen* | future | thou | this thing | | | | for me | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | | 6 | **feed** | future | I | thy flock | | | again | | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flock=Recipient | | 7 | **keep** | infinitive | I *not said here* | flock | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | 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} וַיֹּ֖אמֶר מָ֣ה אֶתֶּן־לָ֑ךְ וַיֹּ֤אמֶר יַעֲקֹב֙ לֹא־תִתֶּן־לִ֣י מְא֔וּמָה אִם־תַּֽעֲשֶׂה־לִּי֙ הַדָּבָ֣ר הַזֶּ֔ה אָשׁ֛וּבָה אֶרְעֶ֥ה צֹֽאנְךָ֖ אֶשְׁמֹֽר׃ [Genesis 30:31: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.30.31/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:920` 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 30:30 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.919/) - next →: [Genesis 30:32 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.921/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 30:31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.30.31/)