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title: Genesis 31:5 (JPS 1917) — and said unto them: 'I see your father's countenance, that it is not… · tree and pragmatics
description: and said unto them: 'I see your father's countenance, that it is not toward me as beforetime; but the God of my father hath been with me. Who acts: I, countenance, God. Genesis 31:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 31:5 · JPS 1917

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and said unto them: 'I see your father's countenance, that it is not toward me as beforetime; but the God of my father hath been with me.

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**Who acts:** I, countenance, God · **What happens:** say, see, not be, be · **To what, where:** countenance · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Genesis 31:5 · 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 (I, countenance, God), 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:938
# text = and said unto them: 'I see your father's countenance, that it is not toward me as beforetime; but the God of my father hath been with me.
1	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
6	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
9	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	countenance	countenance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
18	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	acl	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	beforetime	beforetime	ADV	RB	_	19	advcl	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
30	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	32	cop	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	conj	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  | unto Rachel | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **see** | present | I | your father's countenance |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer countenance=Stimulus |
| 3 | **not** **is** | present | countenance | your father's countenance *not said here* |  |  |  | toward me | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present · perfect | the God of my father |  |  |  |  | with me | 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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וַיֹּ֣אמֶר לָהֶ֗ן רֹאֶ֤ה אָנֹכִי֙ אֶת־פְּנֵ֣י אֲבִיכֶ֔ן כִּֽי־אֵינֶ֥נּוּ אֵלַ֖י כִּתְמֹ֣ל שִׁלְשֹׁ֑ם וֵֽאלֹהֵ֣י אָבִ֔י הָיָ֖ה עִמָּדִֽי׃

[Genesis 31:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.31.5/)

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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:938` 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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