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title: Genesis 32:1 (JPS 1917) — (32-1) And early in the morning Laban rose up, and kissed his sons a… · tree and pragmatics
description: (32-1) And early in the morning Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them. Who acts: Laban. Genesis 32:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 32:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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(32-1) And early in the morning Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them.

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**Who acts:** Laban · **What happens:** rise up, kiss, bless · **To what, where:** sons

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This is Genesis 32:1 · 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 (Laban), 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:998
# text = (32-1) And early in the morning Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them.
1	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
2	32-1	32-1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	parataxis	_	_
3	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
5	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
9	Laban	Laban	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	kissed	kiss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	blessed	bless	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **rise up** | past | Laban |  |  |  | morning | early *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **kiss** | past | Laban *not said here* | Laban's sons and Laban's daughters |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **bless** | past | Laban *not said here* | sons *= son* |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

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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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וַיַּשְׁכֵּ֨ם לָבָ֜ן בַּבֹּ֗קֶר וַיְנַשֵּׁ֧ק לְבָנָ֛יו וְלִבְנוֹתָ֖יו וַיְבָ֣רֶךְ אֶתְהֶ֑ם וַיֵּ֛לֶךְ וַיָּ֥שָׁב לָבָ֖ן לִמְקֹמֽוֹ׃

[Genesis 32:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.32.1/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **(32-1) And early in the morning Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them.**
2. [And Laban departed, and returned unto his place.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.999/)

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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:998` 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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