--- title: Genesis 31:41 (JPS 1917) — These twenty years have I been in thy house: I served thee fourteen… · tree and pragmatics description: These twenty years have I been in thy house: I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy flock; and thou hast changed my wages ten times. Who acts: I, thou. 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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 (I, 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:982 # text = These twenty years have I been in thy house: I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy flock; and thou hast changed my wages ten times. 1 These this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 3 det _ _ 2 twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl:unmarked _ _ 4 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 5 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 6 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 9 cop _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 11 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 served serve VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 13 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 12 obj _ _ 14 fourteen fourteen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 15 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl:unmarked _ _ 16 for for ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 19 nmod:poss _ _ 18 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ _ 19 daughters daughter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 23 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 24 for for ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 flock flock NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 27 ; ; PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 29 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 31 nsubj _ _ 30 hast have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 changed change VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 12 conj _ _ 32 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 wages wage NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ _ 34 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 35 nummod _ _ 35 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl:unmarked _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: express - voice: character - polarity: pos - teacher: changed act=express, voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present · perfect | I | | | thy house | year | | tree rules | | 2 | **serve** | past | I | thee | | | year | for thy two daughters | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent thou=Theme for daughter=Recipient | | 3 | **change** | present · perfect | thou | my wages | | | time | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wage=Patient | 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} זֶה־לִּ֞י עֶשְׂרִ֣ים שָׁנָה֮ בְּבֵיתֶךָ֒ עֲבַדְתִּ֜יךָ אַרְבַּֽע־עֶשְׂרֵ֤ה שָׁנָה֙ בִּשְׁתֵּ֣י בְנֹתֶ֔יךָ וְשֵׁ֥שׁ שָׁנִ֖ים בְּצֹאנֶ֑ךָ וַתַּחֲלֵ֥ף אֶת־מַשְׂכֻּרְתִּ֖י עֲשֶׂ֥רֶת מֹנִֽים׃ [Genesis 31:41: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.31.41/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:982` 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 31:40 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.981/) - next →: [Genesis 31:42 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.983/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 31:41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.31.41/)