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title: Genesis 31:25 (JPS 1917) — Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain; and Laban with his b… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain; and Laban with his brethren pitched in the mountain of Gilead. Who acts: Jacob, Laban. Genesis 31:25 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 31:25 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain; and Laban with his brethren pitched in the mountain of Gilead.

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**Who acts:** Jacob, Laban · **What happens:** pitch · **To what, where:** tent, mountain

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This is Genesis 31:25 · 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 (Jacob, Laban), 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:962
# text = Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain; and Laban with his brethren pitched in the mountain of Gilead.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	Jacob	Jacob	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	pitched	pitch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	tent	tent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	Laban	Laban	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	brethren	brethren	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
16	pitched	pitch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Gilead	Gilead	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	.	.	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 | **pitch** | past · perfect | Jacob | Jacob's tent |  | the mountain | now |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent tent=Theme in mountain=Destination |
| 2 | **pitch** | past | Laban with Laban's brethren |  |  | the mountain of Gilead |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent in mountain=Destination |

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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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וַיַּשֵּׂ֥ג לָבָ֖ן אֶֽת־יַעֲקֹ֑ב וְיַעֲקֹ֗ב תָּקַ֤ע אֶֽת־אָהֳלוֹ֙ בָּהָ֔ר וְלָבָ֛ן תָּקַ֥ע אֶת־אֶחָ֖יו בְּהַ֥ר הַגִּלְעָֽד׃

[Genesis 31:25: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.31.25/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [And Laban came up with Jacob.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.961/)
2. **Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain; and Laban with his brethren pitched in the mountain of Gilead.**

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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:962` 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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