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title: Genesis 31:36 (JPS 1917) — And Jacob was wroth, and strove with Laban. · tree and pragmatics
description: And Jacob was wroth, and strove with Laban. Who acts: Jacob. Genesis 31:36 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 31:36 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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And Jacob was wroth, and strove with Laban.

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**Who acts:** Jacob · **What happens:** be, strive

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This is Genesis 31:36 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 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), 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:975
# text = And Jacob was wroth, and strove with Laban.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	Jacob	Jacob	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	wroth	wroth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	strove	strive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Laban	Laban	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **is** | past | Jacob |  |  |  |  | wroth *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **strive** | past | Jacob *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with Laban | tree rules |

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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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וַיִּ֥חַר לְיַעֲקֹ֖ב וַיָּ֣רֶב בְּלָבָ֑ן וַיַּ֤עַן יַעֲקֹב֙ וַיֹּ֣אמֶר לְלָבָ֔ן מַה־פִּשְׁעִי֙ מַ֣ה חַטָּאתִ֔י כִּ֥י דָלַ֖קְתָּ אַחֲרָֽי׃

[Genesis 31:36: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.31.36/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **And Jacob was wroth, and strove with Laban.**
2. [And Jacob answered and said to Laban: 'What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast hotly pursued after me?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.976/)

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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:975` 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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