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title: Genesis 31:40 (JPS 1917) — Thus I was: in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by nig… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus I was: in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from mine eyes. Who acts: drought, sleep, my. Genesis 31:40 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 31:40 · JPS 1917

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Thus I was: in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from mine eyes.

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**Who acts:** drought, sleep, my · **What happens:** consume, flee, sleep · **To what, where:** me, eyes

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This is Genesis 31:40 · 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 (drought, sleep, my), 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:981
# text = Thus I was: in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from mine eyes.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	drought	drought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	consumed	consume	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	frost	frost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	fled	flee	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	mine	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **consume** | past | the drought | me |  |  | day |  | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Asset |
| 2 | **flee** | past | my sleep |  |  | mine eyes |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from eye=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **sleep** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=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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הָיִ֧יתִי בַיּ֛וֹם אֲכָלַ֥נִי חֹ֖רֶב וְקֶ֣רַח בַּלָּ֑יְלָה וַתִּדַּ֥ד שְׁנָתִ֖י מֵֽעֵינָֽי׃

[Genesis 31:40: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.31.40/)

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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:981` 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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