Genesis 31:31 · JPS 1917

And Jacob answered and said to Laban: 'Because I was afraid; for I said: Lest thou shouldest take thy daughters from me by force.

Who acts: Jacob, I, thou · What happens: answer, say, be, take · To what, where: Laban, daughters · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Genesis 31:31 · 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 (Jacob, 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 answered	cc
2	Jacob	Jacob	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 answered	nsubj
3	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 said	cc
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 answered	conj
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 Laban	case
7	Laban	Laban	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	obl
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 afraid	punct
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 afraid	punct
10	Because	because	SCONJ	_	13 afraid	mark
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 afraid	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 afraid	cop
13	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	advcl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
15	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 said	mark
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 said	nsubj
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	advcl
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 take	punct
19	Lest	lest	SCONJ	_	22 take	mark
20	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	22 take	nsubj
21	shouldest	should	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	22 take	aux
22	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 said	ccomp
23	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	24 daughters	nmod:poss
24	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 take	obj
25	from	from	ADP	_	26 me	case
26	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 take	obl
27	by	by	ADP	_	28 force	case
28	force	force	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 take	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 answered	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	Jacob				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	Jacob not said here		Laban		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to laban=Recipient
3	is	past	I			afraid property	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past	I				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	take	should	thou	thy daughters		from me; by force	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme from i=Initial_Location

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

וַיַּ֥עַן יַעֲקֹ֖ב וַיֹּ֣אמֶר לְלָבָ֑ן כִּ֣י יָרֵ֔אתִי כִּ֣י אָמַ֔רְתִּי פֶּן־תִּגְזֹ֥ל אֶת־בְּנוֹתֶ֖יךָ מֵעִמִּֽי׃

Genesis 31:31: 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:968 of Mova's parse database.

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