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title: Genesis 30:42 (JPS 1917) — but when the flock were feeble, he put them not in; so the feebler w… · tree and pragmatics
description: but when the flock were feeble, he put them not in; so the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's. Who acts: flock, Jacob, feebler. Genesis 30:42 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 30:42 · JPS 1917

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but when the flock were feeble, he put them not in; so the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.

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**Who acts:** flock, Jacob, feebler · **What happens:** be, not put · **To what, where:** rods

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This is Genesis 30:42 · 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 (flock, Jacob, feebler), 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:932
# text = but when the flock were feeble, he put them not in; so the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.
1	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	6	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	flock	flock	NOUN	NN	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	feeble	feeble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	advcl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	feebler	feeble	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	nsubj	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	Laban	Laban	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	parataxis	_	_
19	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	stronger	strong	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	24	amod	_	_
24	Jacob	Jacob	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
25	's	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **is** | past | the flock |  |  |  |  | feeble *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **put** | past | Jacob | rods *= rod* |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal |
| 3 | **is** | past | the feebler |  |  |  |  | 's Laban and the stronger Jacob | 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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וּבְהַעֲטִ֥יף הַצֹּ֖אן לֹ֣א יָשִׂ֑ים וְהָיָ֤ה הָעֲטֻפִים֙ לְלָבָ֔ן וְהַקְּשֻׁרִ֖ים לְיַעֲקֹֽב׃

[Genesis 30:42: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.30.42/)

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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:932` 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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