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title: Genesis 31:28 (JPS 1917) — and didst not suffer me to kiss my sons and my daughters? now hast t… · tree and pragmatics
description: and didst not suffer me to kiss my sons and my daughters? now hast thou done foolishly. Who acts: thou. Genesis 31:28 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 31:28 · JPS 1917

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and didst not suffer me to kiss my sons and my daughters? now hast thou done foolishly.

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**Who acts:** thou · **What happens:** not suffer, kiss, do · **To what, where:** me, sons

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This is Genesis 31:28 · 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), 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:965
# text = and didst not suffer me to kiss my sons and my daughters? now hast thou done foolishly.
1	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	didst	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	suffer	suffer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	kiss	kiss	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
14	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
15	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	17	nsubj	_	_
17	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	parataxis	_	_
18	foolishly	foolishly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **suffer** | past · do-support |  | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **kiss** | to-infinitive |  | my sons and my daughters |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **do** | present · perfect | thou |  |  |  | now | foolishly *property* | 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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וְלֹ֣א נְטַשְׁתַּ֔נִי לְנַשֵּׁ֥ק לְבָנַ֖י וְלִבְנֹתָ֑י עַתָּ֖ה הִסְכַּ֥לְתָּֽ עֲשֽׂוֹ׃

[Genesis 31:28: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.31.28/)

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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:965` 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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