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title: Genesis 31:42 (JPS 1917) — God hath seen mine affliction and the labour of my hands, and gave j… · tree and pragmatics
description: God hath seen mine affliction and the labour of my hands, and gave judgment yesternight.' Who acts: God, mine. Genesis 31:42 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 31:42 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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God hath seen mine affliction and the labour of my hands, and gave judgment yesternight.'

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**Who acts:** God, mine · **What happens:** see, give, afflict · **To what, where:** affliction, judgment

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This is Genesis 31:42 · 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 (God, mine), 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:984
# text = God hath seen mine affliction and the labour of my hands, and gave judgment yesternight.'
1	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	mine	mine	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	affliction	affliction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	labour	labour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	judgment	judgment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	yesternight	yesternight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
18	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present · perfect | God | mine affliction and the labour of my hands |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer affliction=Stimulus |
| 2 | **give** | past | God *not said here* | judgment |  |  |  | yesternight *obl:unmarked* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent judgment=Theme |
| 3 | **afflict** |  | mine |  |  |  |  |  | nom affliction «state transitive»: 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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לוּלֵ֡י אֱלֹהֵ֣י אָבִי֩ אֱלֹהֵ֨י אַבְרָהָ֜ם וּפַ֤חַד יִצְחָק֙ הָ֣יָה לִ֔י כִּ֥י עַתָּ֖ה רֵיקָ֣ם שִׁלַּחְתָּ֑נִי אֶת־עָנְיִ֞י וְאֶת־יְגִ֧יעַכַּפַּ֛י רָאָ֥ה אֱלֹהִ֖ים וַיּ֥וֹכַח אָֽמֶשׁ׃

[Genesis 31:42: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.31.42/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the Fear of Isaac, had been on my side, surely now hadst thou sent me away empty.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.983/)
2. **God hath seen mine affliction and the labour of my hands, and gave judgment yesternight.'**

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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:984` 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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