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title: Genesis 31:19 (JPS 1917) — And Rachel stole the teraphim that were her father's. · tree and pragmatics
description: And Rachel stole the teraphim that were her father's. Who acts: Rachel, teraphim. Genesis 31:19 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 31:19 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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And Rachel stole the teraphim that were her father's.

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**Who acts:** Rachel, teraphim · **What happens:** steal, be · **To what, where:** teraphim

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This is Genesis 31:19 · 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 (Rachel, teraphim), 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:955
# text = And Rachel stole the teraphim that were her father's.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Rachel	Rachel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stole	steal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	teraphim	teraphim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **steal** | past | Rachel | the teraphim |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location teraphim=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | the teraphim |  |  |  |  | 's sheep's father | 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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וְלָבָ֣ן הָלַ֔ךְ לִגְזֹ֖ז אֶת־צֹאנ֑וֹ וַתִּגְנֹ֣ב רָחֵ֔ל אֶת־הַתְּרָפִ֖ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר לְאָבִֽיהָ׃

[Genesis 31:19: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.31.19/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [Now Laban was gone to shear his sheep.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.954/)
2. **And Rachel stole the teraphim that were her father's.**

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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:955` 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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