Genesis 25:27 · JPS 1917
And the boys grew; and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a quiet man, dwelling in tents.
Who acts: boys, Esau, Jacob, quiet man · What happens: grow, be, dwell · To what, where: cunning hunter, quiet man, tents
This is Genesis 25:27 · 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 (boys, Esau, Jacob, quiet man), 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 | _ | 4 grew | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 boys | det |
| 3 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 grew | nsubj |
| 4 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 hunter | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 hunter | cc |
| 7 | Esau | Esau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 hunter | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 hunter | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 hunter | det |
| 10 | cunning | cunning | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 hunter | amod |
| 11 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grew | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 man | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hunter | appos |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 field | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 field | det |
| 17 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 man | nmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 man | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 man | cc |
| 20 | Jacob | Jacob | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 man | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 man | cop |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 man | det |
| 23 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 man | amod |
| 24 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grew | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 dwelling | punct |
| 26 | dwelling | dwell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 man | acl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 tents | case |
| 28 | tents | tent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 dwelling | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | the boys | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | Esau | a cunning hunter | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | Jacob | a quiet man | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | dwell | gerund | a quiet man not said here | tents | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tent=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
וַֽיִּגְדְּלוּ֙ הַנְּעָרִ֔ים וַיְהִ֣י עֵשָׂ֗ו אִ֛ישׁ יֹדֵ֥עַ צַ֖יִד אִ֣ישׁ שָׂדֶ֑ה וְיַעֲקֹב֙ אִ֣ישׁ תָּ֔ם יֹשֵׁ֖ב אֹהָלִֽים׃
Genesis 25:27: 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:724 of Mova's parse database.
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