Genesis 27:1 · JPS 1917
And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his elder son, and said unto him: 'My son'; and he said unto him: 'Here am I.'
Who acts: Isaac, eyes, I. · What happens: come, pass, be, not see, call, say · To what, where: it, Esau · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Genesis 27:1 · 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 (Isaac, eyes, 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 came | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | expl |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 pass | mark |
| 5 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 came | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 called | punct |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 called | mark |
| 8 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 11 old | mark |
| 9 | Isaac | Isaac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 old | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 old | cop |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 called | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 dim | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 dim | cc |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 15 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 dim | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 dim | cop |
| 17 | dim | dim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 old | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 see | punct |
| 19 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 24 see | mark |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 so | fixed |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 see | nsubj |
| 22 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 see | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 see | advmod |
| 24 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 dim | advcl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 see | punct |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 called | nsubj |
| 27 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | ccomp |
| 28 | Esau | Esau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 called | obj |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 son | nmod:poss |
| 30 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 son | amod |
| 31 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 called | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 said | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 said | cc |
| 34 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 called | conj |
| 35 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 36 him | case |
| 36 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 said | obl |
| 37 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 40 son | punct |
| 38 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 40 son | punct |
| 39 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 son | nmod:poss |
| 40 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 said | ccomp |
| 41 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 40 son | punct |
| 42 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 45 said | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 said | cc |
| 44 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 said | nsubj |
| 45 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 46 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 47 him | case |
| 47 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 said | obl |
| 48 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 50 Here | punct |
| 49 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 50 Here | punct |
| 50 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 45 said | ccomp |
| 51 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 50 Here | cop |
| 52 | I. | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 50 Here | nsubj |
| 53 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 50 Here | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | it | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | pass | to-infinitive | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | is | past | Isaac | old property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | past | Isaac's eyes | dim property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not see | could | Isaac | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | call | past | Isaac | Esau | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent esau=Theme son=Result | ||||
| 7 | say speech: assert | past | Isaac not said here | unto Isaac | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | say speech: assert | past | Isaac | unto Esau | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 9 | is | present | I. | here property | tree rules |
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
וַיְהִי֙ כִּֽי־זָקֵ֣ן יִצְחָ֔ק וַתִּכְהֶ֥יןָ עֵינָ֖יו מֵרְאֹ֑ת וַיִּקְרָ֞א אֶת־עֵשָׂ֣ו ׀ בְּנ֣וֹ הַגָּדֹ֗ל וַיֹּ֤אמֶר אֵלָיו֙ בְּנִ֔י וַיֹּ֥אמֶר אֵלָ֖יו הִנֵּֽנִי׃
Genesis 27:1: 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:773 of Mova's parse database.
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