Genesis 25:30 · JPS 1917
And Esau said to Jacob: 'Let me swallow, I pray thee, some of this red, red pottage; for I am faint.' Therefore was his name called Edom.
Who acts: Esau, me, I · What happens: say, let, swallow, pray, be, call · To what, where: Jacob, me, some, thee, name · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Genesis 25:30 · 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 (Esau, me, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 said | cc |
| 2 | Esau | Esau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Jacob | case |
| 5 | Jacob | Jacob | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | obl |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 Let | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 Let | punct |
| 8 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | ccomp |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 Let | obj |
| 10 | swallow | swallow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 Let | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 pray | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 pray | nsubj |
| 13 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 Let | parataxis |
| 14 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 pray | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 some | punct |
| 16 | some | some | PRON | PronType=Ind | 10 swallow | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 pottage | case |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 pottage | det |
| 19 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 pottage | amod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 red | punct |
| 21 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 pottage | amod |
| 22 | pottage | pottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 some | nmod |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 faint | punct |
| 24 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 27 faint | mark |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 faint | nsubj |
| 26 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 faint | cop |
| 27 | faint | faint | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Let | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 Let | punct |
| 29 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 Let | punct |
| 30 | Therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 34 called | advmod |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 called | aux:pass |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 name | nmod:poss |
| 33 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 called | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 said | parataxis |
| 35 | Edom | Edom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 called | xcomp |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
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- act
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- teacher
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Esau | Jacob | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to jacob=Experiencer clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | let | infinitive | me | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | swallow | infinitive | me not said here | some | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Patient | ||||
| 4 | pray | present | I | thee | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is | present | I | faint property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | call | past · passive | Esau's name | therefore property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 7 | name | Esau | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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
וַיֹּ֨אמֶר עֵשָׂ֜ו אֶֽל־יַעֲקֹ֗ב הַלְעִיטֵ֤נִי נָא֙ מִן־הָאָדֹ֤ם הָאָדֹם֙ הַזֶּ֔ה כִּ֥י עָיֵ֖ף אָנֹ֑כִי עַל־כֵּ֥ן קָרָֽא־שְׁמ֖וֹ אֱדֽוֹם׃
Genesis 25:30: 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:727 of Mova's parse database.
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