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title: Genesis 31:16 (JPS 1917) — Now then, whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do.' · tree and pragmatics
description: Now then, whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do.' Who acts: God, you. Genesis 31:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 31:16 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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Now then, whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do.'

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**Who acts:** God, you · **What happens:** say, do · **To what, where:** whatsoever · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Genesis 31:16 · 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 (God, you), 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:951
# text = Now then, whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do.'
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
4	whatsoever	whatsoever	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
5	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
8	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	do	do	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
13	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · perfect | God | whatsoever |  |  |  | unto thee | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent whatsoever=Topic |
| 2 | **do** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | now; then |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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כִּ֣י כָל־הָעֹ֗שֶׁר אֲשֶׁ֨ר הִצִּ֤יל אֱלֹהִים֙ מֵֽאָבִ֔ינוּ לָ֥נוּ ה֖וּא וּלְבָנֵ֑ינוּ וְעַתָּ֗ה כֹּל֩ אֲשֶׁ֨ר אָמַ֧ר אֱלֹהִ֛ים אֵלֶ֖יךָ עֲשֵֽׂה׃

[Genesis 31:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.31.16/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [For all the riches which God hath taken away from our father, that is ours and our children's.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.950/)
2. **Now then, whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do.'**

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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:951` 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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