Genesis 27:22 · JPS 1917
And Jacob went near unto Isaac his father; and he felt him, and said: 'The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.'
Who acts: Jacob, voice, hands · What happens: go, feel, say, be · To what, where: Isaac, voice, hands · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Genesis 27:22 · 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 (Jacob, voice, hands), 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 went | cc |
| 2 | Jacob | Jacob | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | near | near | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 6 Isaac | case |
| 6 | Isaac | Isaac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 father | nmod:poss |
| 8 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Isaac | appos |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 felt | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 felt | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 felt | nsubj |
| 12 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 felt | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 said | cc |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 voice | punct |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 voice | punct |
| 19 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 voice | det |
| 20 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 voice | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 voice | cop |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 voice | det |
| 23 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | ccomp |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Jacob | case |
| 25 | Jacob | Jacob | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 voice | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 hands | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 hands | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 hands | det |
| 29 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 hands | nsubj |
| 30 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 hands | cop |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 hands | det |
| 32 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 voice | conj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 Esau | case |
| 34 | Esau | Esau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 hands | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
| 36 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Jacob | unto Isaac; near property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | feel | past | Jacob | Isaac | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Jacob not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | the voice | the voice but the hands | of Jacob | tree rules | |||
| 5 | is a | present | the hands | the hands | of Esau | 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
וַיִּגַּ֧שׁ יַעֲקֹ֛ב אֶל־יִצְחָ֥ק אָבִ֖יו וַיְמֻשֵּׁ֑הוּ וַיֹּ֗אמֶר הַקֹּל֙ ק֣וֹל יַעֲקֹ֔ב וְהַיָּדַ֖יִם יְדֵ֥י עֵשָֽׂו׃
Genesis 27:22: 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:796 of Mova's parse database.
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