Genesis 29:15 · JPS 1917

And Laban said unto Jacob: 'Because thou art my brother, shouldest thou therefore serve me for nought? tell me, what shall thy wages be?'

Who acts: Laban, thou, wages · What happens: say, be, serve, tell · To what, where: brother, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Genesis 29:15 · 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 (Laban, thou, wages), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 said	cc
2	Laban	Laban	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	unto	unto	ADP	_	5 Jacob	case
5	Jacob	Jacob	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 said	obl
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 serve	punct
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	17 serve	punct
8	Because	because	SCONJ	_	10 art	mark
9	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	10 art	nsubj
10	art	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 brother	cop
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 brother	nmod:poss
12	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 serve	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 serve	punct
14	shouldest	should	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	17 serve	aux
15	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	17 serve	nsubj
16	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	17 serve	advmod
17	serve	serve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 serve	obj
19	for	for	ADP	_	20 nought	case
20	nought	nought	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 serve	obl
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	17 serve	punct
22	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 serve	parataxis
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 tell	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 be	punct
25	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 tell	ccomp
26	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 what	aux
27	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	28 wages	nmod:poss
28	wages	wage	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 what	nsubj
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 what	cop
30	?	?	PUNCT	_	22 tell	punct
31	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: wh-question
act: ask
voice: character
polarity: none
indirect: yes
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Laban			unto Jacob	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is a	present	thou not said here	my brother			tree rules
3	serve	should	thou	me		for nought; therefore property	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Theme for nought=Recipient
4	tell speech: assert	infinitive			me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
5	is a	shall	thy wages				tree rules

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

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר לָבָן֙ לְיַעֲקֹ֔ב הֲכִי־אָחִ֣י אַ֔תָּה וַעֲבַדְתַּ֖נִי חִנָּ֑ם הַגִּ֥ידָה לִּ֖י מַה־מַּשְׂכֻּרְתֶּֽךָ׃

Genesis 29:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →

Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:GEN:866 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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