--- title: Genesis 31:36 (JPS 1917) — And Jacob answered and said to Laban: 'What is my trespass? what is… · tree and pragmatics description: And Jacob answered and said to Laban: 'What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast hotly pursued after me? Who acts: Jacob, trespass, thou. Genesis 31:36 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.976/) [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/) / [31:36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.31.36/) / JPS 2 # Genesis 31:36 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 And Jacob answered and said to Laban: 'What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast hotly pursued after me? **Who acts:** Jacob, trespass, thou · **What happens:** answer, say, be, pursue · **To what, where:** Laban, trespass, sin · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is Genesis 31:36 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 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, trespass, 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:976 # text = And Jacob answered and said to Laban: 'What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast hotly pursued after me? 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 Jacob Jacob PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Laban Laban PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 9 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 10 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 13 nsubj _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 12 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 trespass trespass NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 ccomp _ _ 14 ? ? PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ 15 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 18 nsubj _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 17 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 sin sin NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 parataxis _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 that that SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 21 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 24 nsubj _ _ 22 hast have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 hotly hotly ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 pursued pursue VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 18 advcl _ _ 25 after after ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 obl _ _ 27 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: wh-question - act: ask - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Jacob | | | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Jacob *not said here* | | Laban | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to laban=Recipient | | 3 | **is a** | present | | my trespass | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | present | my trespass | my sin | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **pursue** | present · perfect | thou | | | | after me | hotly *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent after i=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} 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/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. [And Jacob was wroth, and strove with Laban.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.975/) 2. **And Jacob answered and said to Laban: 'What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast hotly pursued after me?** **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:976` 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 31:36 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.975/) - next →: [Genesis 31:37 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.977/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 31:36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.31.36/)