Genesis 27:27 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2
And he smelled the smell of his raiment, and blessed him, and said: See, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which the LORD hath blessed.
Who acts: Jacob, smell, LORD, raiment, son · What happens: smell, bless, say, see, be · To what, where: smell, Jacob, field · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Genesis 27:27 · 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 (Jacob, smell, LORD, raiment), 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 smelled | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 smelled | nsubj |
| 3 | smelled | smell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 smell | det |
| 5 | smell | smell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 smelled | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 raiment | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 raiment | nmod:poss |
| 8 | raiment | raiment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 smell | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 blessed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 blessed | cc |
| 11 | blessed | bless | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 smelled | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 blessed | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 said | cc |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 smelled | conj |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 See | punct |
| 17 | See | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | ccomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 smell | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 smell | det |
| 20 | smell | smell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 smell | nsubj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 son | case |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 son | nmod:poss |
| 23 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 smell | nmod |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 smell | cop |
| 25 | as | as | ADP | _ | 27 smell | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 smell | det |
| 27 | smell | smell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | ccomp |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 field | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 field | det |
| 30 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 smell | nmod |
| 31 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 blessed | obj |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 LORD | det |
| 33 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 blessed | nsubj |
| 34 | hath | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 blessed | aux |
| 35 | blessed | bless | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 field | acl:relcl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 smelled | 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 | smell | past | Jacob | the smell of Jacob's raiment | vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer smell=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | bless | past | Jacob not said here | Jacob | vn judgment-33.1-1 «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 clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | see | infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | is | present | the smell of my son | as the smell; of a field | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | bless | present · perfect | the LORD | a field | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme | ||||
| 7 | smell | Jacob's raiment | nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 8 | smell | my son | nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=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
וַיִּגַּשׁ֙ וַיִּשַּׁק־ל֔וֹ וַיָּ֛רַח אֶת־רֵ֥יחַ בְּגָדָ֖יו וַֽיְבָרֲכֵ֑הוּ וַיֹּ֗אמֶר רְאֵה֙ רֵ֣יחַ בְּנִ֔י כְּרֵ֣יחַ שָׂדֶ֔ה אֲשֶׁ֥ר בֵּרֲכ֖וֹ יְהוָֽה׃
Genesis 27:27: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- And he came near, and kissed him.
- And he smelled the smell of his raiment, and blessed him, and said: See, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which the LORD hath blessed.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:GEN:802 of Mova's parse database.
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