Genesis 25:34 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2
So Esau despised his birthright.
Who acts: Esau · What happens: despise · To what, where: birthright
This is Genesis 25:34 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 despised | advmod |
| 2 | Esau | Esau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 despised | nsubj |
| 3 | despised | despise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 birthright | nmod:poss |
| 5 | birthright | birthright | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 despised | obj |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 despised | punct |
Pragmatics
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | despise | past | Esau | Esau's birthright | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer birthright=Stimulus |
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
וְיַעֲקֹ֞ב נָתַ֣ן לְעֵשָׂ֗ו לֶ֚חֶם וּנְזִ֣יד עֲדָשִׁ֔ים וַיֹּ֣אכַל וַיֵּ֔שְׁתְּ וַיָּ֖קָם וַיֵּלַ֑ךְ וַיִּ֥בֶז עֵשָׂ֖ו אֶת־הַבְּכֹרָֽה׃ס
Genesis 25:34: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- And Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentils; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way.
- So Esau despised his birthright.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:GEN:732 of Mova's parse database.
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