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title: Genesis 31:27 (JPS 1917) — Wherefore didst thou flee secretly, and outwit me; and didst not tel… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wherefore didst thou flee secretly, and outwit me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth and with songs, with tabret and with harp; Who acts: thou, I. Genesis 31:27 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 31:27 · JPS 1917

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Wherefore didst thou flee secretly, and outwit me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth and with songs, with tabret and with harp;

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**Who acts:** thou, I · **What happens:** flee, outwit, not tell, send away · **To what, where:** me, thee · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Genesis 31:27 · 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 (thou, I), 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:964
# text = Wherefore didst thou flee secretly, and outwit me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth and with songs, with tabret and with harp;
1	Wherefore	wherefore	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	didst	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
4	flee	flee	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	secretly	secretly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	outwit	outwit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	didst	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
15	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	iobj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux	_	_
21	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	ccomp	_	_
22	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	21	obj	_	_
23	away	away	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	mirth	mirth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	tabret	tabret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	harp	harp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
35	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- hedged: yes
- teacher: changed form=q, act=ask

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flee** | past · do-support | thou |  |  |  |  | secretly, wherefore *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **outwit** | infinitive | thou *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot i=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | thou *not said here* |  | me |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **send away** | might · perfect | I | thee |  |  |  | with mirth and songs; with tabret and harp; away *property* | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme |

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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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לָ֤מָּה נַחְבֵּ֙אתָ֙ לִבְרֹ֔חַ וַתִּגְנֹ֖ב אֹתִ֑י וְלֹא־הִגַּ֣דְתָּ לִּ֔י וָֽאֲשַׁלֵּחֲךָ֛ בְּשִׂמְחָ֥ה וּבְשִׁרִ֖ים בְּתֹ֥ף וּבְכִנּֽוֹר׃

[Genesis 31:27: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.31.27/)

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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:964` 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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