Genesis 32:21 · JPS 1917

(32-21) and ye shall say: Moreover, behold, thy servant Jacob is behind us.' For he said: 'I will appease him with the present that goeth before me, and afterward I will see his face; peradventure he will accept me.'

Who acts: ye, servant, Esau, I, present · What happens: say, be, appease, go, see, accept · To what, where: Esau, face, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Genesis 32:21 · 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 (ye, servant, Esau, I), 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 32-21	punct
2	32-21	32-21	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 say	dep
3	)	)	PUNCT	_	2 32-21	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 say	cc
5	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	7 say	nsubj
6	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 say	aux
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct
9	Moreover	moreover	ADV	_	18 us	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 behold	punct
11	behold	behold	INTJ	_	18 us	discourse
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 behold	punct
13	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	14 servant	nmod:poss
14	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 us	nsubj
15	Jacob	Jacob	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 servant	appos
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 us	cop
17	behind	behind	ADP	_	18 us	case
18	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 say	ccomp
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 us	punct
20	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct
21	For	for	SCONJ	_	23 said	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 said	nsubj
23	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	advcl
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	28 appease	punct
25	'	'	PUNCT	_	28 appease	punct
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 appease	nsubj
27	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 appease	aux
28	appease	appease	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 said	ccomp
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 appease	obj
30	with	with	ADP	_	32 present	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 present	det
32	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 appease	obl
33	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 goeth	nsubj
34	goeth	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 present	acl:relcl
35	before	before	ADP	_	36 me	case
36	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 goeth	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 see	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 see	cc
39	afterward	afterward	ADV	_	42 see	advmod
40	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 see	nsubj
41	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 see	aux
42	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 appease	conj
43	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 face	nmod:poss
44	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 see	obj
45	;	;	PUNCT	_	46 peradventure	punct
46	peradventure	peradventure	ADV	_	49 accept	advmod
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 accept	nsubj
48	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 accept	aux
49	accept	accept	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 say	parataxis
50	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	49 accept	obj
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct
52	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: promise
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	shall	ye				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	thy servant			behind us; moreover property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	Esau				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	appease	future	I	Esau		with the present	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
5	go	present	the present		before me		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before i=Location
6	see	future	I	Esau's face		afterward property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus
7	accept	future	Esau	me		peradventure property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme

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

וַאֲמַרְתֶּ֕ם גַּ֗ם הִנֵּ֛ה עַבְדְּךָ֥ יַעֲקֹ֖ב אַחֲרֵ֑ינוּ כִּֽי־אָמַ֞ר אֲכַפְּרָ֣ה פָנָ֗יו בַּמִּנְחָה֙ הַהֹלֶ֣כֶת לְפָנָ֔י וְאַחֲרֵי־כֵן֙ אֶרְאֶ֣ה פָנָ֔יו אוּלַ֖י יִשָּׂ֥א פָנָֽי׃

Genesis 32:21: 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:1020 of Mova's parse database.

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