Genesis 32:12 · JPS 1917
(32-12) Deliver me, I pray Thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau; for I fear him, lest he come and smite me, the mother with the children.
Who acts: you, I, Esau · What happens: deliver, pray, fear, come, smite · To what, where: me, hand, Thee, Esau
This is Genesis 32:12 · 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 (you, I, Esau), 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 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 2 32-12 | punct |
| 2 | 32-12 | 32-12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 Deliver | discourse |
| 3 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 2 32-12 | punct |
| 4 | Deliver | deliver | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 Deliver | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 pray | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 pray | nsubj |
| 8 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 Deliver | parataxis |
| 9 | Thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 pray | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 hand | punct |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 hand | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hand | det |
| 13 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Deliver | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 brother | case |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 brother | nmod:poss |
| 16 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hand | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 hand | punct |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 hand | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 hand | det |
| 20 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Deliver | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Esau | case |
| 22 | Esau | Esau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 hand | nmod |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 fear | punct |
| 24 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 26 fear | mark |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 fear | nsubj |
| 26 | fear | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 Deliver | advcl |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 fear | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 come | punct |
| 29 | lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 31 come | mark |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 come | nsubj |
| 31 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Sub Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 fear | advcl |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 smite | cc |
| 33 | smite | smite | VERB | Mood=Sub Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 come | conj |
| 34 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 smite | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 mother | punct |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 mother | det |
| 37 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 me | appos |
| 38 | with | with | ADP | _ | 40 children | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 children | det |
| 40 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 mother | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Deliver | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- hedged
- yes
- teacher
- changed act=request
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deliver | imperative | you not said here | me | the hand of my brother | from the hand of Esau | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent i=Theme from hand=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | pray | present | I | Thee | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fear | present | I | Esau | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | come | present | Esau | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | smite | present | Esau not said here | me | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer |
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
הַצִּילֵ֥נִי נָ֛א מִיַּ֥ד אָחִ֖י מִיַּ֣ד עֵשָׂ֑ו כִּֽי־יָרֵ֤א אָנֹכִי֙ אֹת֔וֹ פֶּן־יָב֣וֹא וְהִכַּ֔נִי אֵ֖ם עַל־בָּנִֽים׃
Genesis 32:12: 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:1011 of Mova's parse database.
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