--- title: Genesis 31:26 (JPS 1917) — And Laban said to Jacob: 'What hast thou done, that thou hast outwit… · tree and pragmatics description: And Laban said to Jacob: 'What hast thou done, that thou hast outwitted me, and carried away my daughters as though captives of the sword? Who acts: Laban, thou. Genesis 31:26 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.963/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Torah](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/) / [Genesis](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/) / [chapter 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/31/) / [31:26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.31.26/) / JPS 1 # Genesis 31:26 · JPS 1917 And Laban said to Jacob: 'What hast thou done, that thou hast outwitted me, and carried away my daughters as though captives of the sword? **Who acts:** Laban, thou · **What happens:** say, do, outwit, carry away · **To what, where:** Jacob, me, daughters · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is Genesis 31:26 · 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 (Laban, 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:963 # text = And Laban said to Jacob: 'What hast thou done, that thou hast outwitted me, and carried away my daughters as though captives of the sword? 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 Laban Laban PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Jacob Jacob PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 7 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 8 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 11 obj _ _ 9 hast have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 10 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 11 nsubj _ _ 11 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 ccomp _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 that that SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 14 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 16 nsubj _ _ 15 hast have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 outwitted outwit VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ _ 17 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 carried carry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 21 away away ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 22 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 daughters daughter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 24 as as SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 25 though though SCONJ IN _ 24 fixed _ _ 26 captives captive NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 advcl _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 30 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: wh-question - act: ask - voice: character - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Laban | | Jacob | | | | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient whether/if S»: agent=Pivot to jacob=Experiencer clause=Topic | | 2 | **do** | present · perfect | thou | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | | 3 | **outwit** | present · perfect | thou | me | | | | | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot i=Theme | | 4 | **carry away** | past | thou *not said here* | my daughters | | | | away *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme | 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} וַיֹּ֤אמֶר לָבָן֙ לְיַעֲקֹ֔ב מֶ֣ה עָשִׂ֔יתָ וַתִּגְנֹ֖ב אֶת־לְבָבִ֑י וַתְּנַהֵג֙ אֶת־בְּנֹתַ֔י כִּשְׁבֻי֖וֹת חָֽרֶב׃ [Genesis 31:26: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.31.26/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:963` 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. - ← previous: [Genesis 31:25 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.962/) - next →: [Genesis 31:27 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.964/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 31:26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.31.26/)