Genesis 27:29 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 3
Let peoples serve thee, and nations bow down to thee.
Who acts: peoples, nations · What happens: let, serve, bow down · To what, where: thee
This is Genesis 27:29 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 3 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 (peoples, nations), 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 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | peoples | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Let | nsubj |
| 3 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 peoples | acl |
| 4 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 serve | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bow | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 bow | cc |
| 7 | nations | nation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 bow | nsubj |
| 8 | bow | bow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 serve | conj |
| 9 | down | down | ADV | _ | 8 bow | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 thee | case |
| 11 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 bow | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
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- none
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- changed act=request
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | infinitive | peoples | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | serve | infinitive | peoples not said here | thee | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | bow down | infinitive | nations | to thee; down property | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to thou=Theme |
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
יַֽעַבְד֣וּךָ עַמִּ֗ים וְיִֽשְׁתַּחֲו֤וּלְךָ֙ לְאֻמִּ֔ים הֱוֵ֤ה גְבִיר֙ לְאַחֶ֔יךָ וְיִשְׁתַּחֲוּ֥וּלְךָ֖ בְּנֵ֣י אִמֶּ֑ךָ אֹרְרֶ֣יךָ אָר֔וּר וּֽמְבָרֲכֶ֖יךָ בָּרֽוּךְ׃
Genesis 27:29: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- Let peoples serve thee, and nations bow down to thee.
- Be lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother's sons bow down to thee.
- Cursed be every one that curseth thee, and blessed be every one that blesseth thee.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:GEN:804 of Mova's parse database.
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