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title: Genesis 31:13 (JPS 1917) — I am the God of Beth-el, where thou didst anoint a pillar, where tho… · tree and pragmatics
description: I am the God of Beth-el, where thou didst anoint a pillar, where thou didst vow a vow unto Me. Who acts: I, thou. Genesis 31:13 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 31:13 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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I am the God of Beth-el, where thou didst anoint a pillar, where thou didst vow a vow unto Me.

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**Who acts:** I, thou · **What happens:** be, anoint, vow · **To what, where:** God, pillar, vow

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This is Genesis 31:13 · 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 (I, 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:946
# text = I am the God of Beth-el, where thou didst anoint a pillar, where thou didst vow a vow unto Me.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	Beth	Beth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	_
8	el	El	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	13	advmod	_	_
11	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	nsubj	_	_
12	didst	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	anoint	anoint	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl:relcl	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	pillar	pillar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	20	advmod	_	_
18	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	20	nsubj	_	_
19	didst	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	vow	vow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl:relcl	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	vow	vow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 a** | present | I | the God |  |  |  | of Beth el | tree rules |
| 2 | **anoint** | past · do-support | thou | a pillar |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pillar=Theme |
| 3 | **vow** | past · do-support | thou | a vow |  |  |  | unto 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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אָנֹכִ֤י הָאֵל֙ בֵּֽית־אֵ֔לבֵּֽית־אֵ֔ל אֲשֶׁ֨ר מָשַׁ֤חְתָּ שָּׁם֙ מַצֵּבָ֔ה אֲשֶׁ֨ר נָדַ֥רְתָּ לִּ֛י שָׁ֖ם נֶ֑דֶר עַתָּ֗ה ק֥וּם צֵא֙ מִן־הָאָ֣רֶץ הַזֹּ֔את וְשׁ֖וּב אֶל־אֶ֥רֶץ מוֹלַדְתֶּֽךָ׃

[Genesis 31:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.31.13/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **I am the God of Beth-el, where thou didst anoint a pillar, where thou didst vow a vow unto Me.**
2. [Now arise, get thee out from this land, and return unto the land of thy nativity.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.947/)

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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:946` 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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