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title: Genesis 31:35 (JPS 1917) — And she said to her father: 'Let not my lord be angry that I cannot… · tree and pragmatics
description: And she said to her father: 'Let not my lord be angry that I cannot rise up before thee; for the manner of women is upon me.' And he searched, but found not the teraphim. Who acts: Gilead, lord, I, manner. Genesis 31:35 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 31:35 · JPS 1917

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And she said to her father: 'Let not my lord be angry that I cannot rise up before thee; for the manner of women is upon me.' And he searched, but found not the teraphim.

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**Who acts:** Gilead, lord, I, manner · **What happens:** say, not let, be, not rise up, search, not find · **To what, where:** lord, thee, teraphim · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Genesis 31:35 · 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 (Gilead, lord, I, manner), 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:974
# text = And she said to her father: 'Let not my lord be angry that I cannot rise up before thee; for the manner of women is upon me.' And he searched, but found not the teraphim.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
14	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	rise	rise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	before	before	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	obl	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
24	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
30	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	advcl	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
33	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
34	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	searched	search	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	conj	_	_
40	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	39	advmod	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	teraphim	teraphim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=request

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Gilead |  |  |  |  | to Gilead's father | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to father=Experiencer clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **let** | infinitive |  | my lord |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lord=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | infinitive | my lord *not said here* |  |  |  |  | angry *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **rise up** | can | I |  |  | thee |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before thou=Location |
| 5 | **is** | present | the manner of women |  |  |  |  | upon me | tree rules |
| 6 | **search** | past | LORD |  |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **not** **find** | past | LORD *not said here* | the teraphim |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent teraphim=Topic |

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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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וַתֹּ֣אמֶר אֶל־אָבִ֗יהָ אַל־יִ֙חַר֙ בְּעֵינֵ֣י אֲדֹנִ֔י כִּ֣י ל֤וֹא אוּכַל֙ לָק֣וּם מִפָּנֶ֔יךָ כִּי־דֶ֥רֶךְ נָשִׁ֖ים לִ֑י וַיְחַפֵּ֕שׂ וְלֹ֥א מָצָ֖א אֶת־הַתְּרָפִֽים׃

[Genesis 31:35: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.31.35/)

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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:974` 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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