Genesis 27:31 · JPS 1917

And he also made savoury food, and brought it unto his father; and he said unto his father: 'Let my father arise, and eat of his son's venison, that thy soul may bless me.'

Who acts: Esau, father, soul · What happens: make, bring, say, let, arise, eat · To what, where: savoury food, food, father, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Genesis 27:31 · 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 (Esau, father, soul), 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	_	4 made	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	nsubj
3	also	also	ADV	_	4 made	advmod
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	savoury	savoury	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 food	amod
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 brought	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 brought	cc
9	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 made	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 brought	obj
11	unto	unto	ADP	_	13 father	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 father	nmod:poss
13	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 brought	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 said	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 said	nsubj
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 made	conj
18	unto	unto	ADP	_	20 father	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 father	nmod:poss
20	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	obl
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 Let	punct
22	'	'	PUNCT	_	23 Let	punct
23	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Fin	17 said	ccomp
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 father	nmod:poss
25	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 Let	obj
26	arise	arise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 Let	xcomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 eat	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 eat	cc
29	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 Let	conj
30	of	of	ADP	_	34 venison	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 son	nmod:poss
32	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 venison	nmod:poss
33	's	's	PART	_	32 son	case
34	venison	venison	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 eat	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 bless	punct
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 bless	mark
37	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	38 soul	nmod:poss
38	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 bless	nsubj
39	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 bless	aux
40	bless	bless	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 eat	advcl
41	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 bless	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 Let	punct
43	'	'	PUNCT	_	23 Let	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	past	Esau	savoury food		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Product
2	bring	past	Esau not said here	food	unto Esau's father	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	Esau		unto Esau's father	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	let	infinitive		my father		tree rules
5	arise	infinitive	my father not said here			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	eat	infinitive			of Esau's son's venison	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of venison=Source
7	bless	may	thy soul	me		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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

וַיַּ֤עַשׂ גַּם־הוּא֙ מַטְעַמִּ֔ים וַיָּבֵ֖א לְאָבִ֑יו וַיֹּ֣אמֶר לְאָבִ֗יו יָקֻ֤ם אָבִי֙ וְיֹאכַל֙ מִצֵּ֣יד בְּנ֔וֹ בַּעֲב֖וּר תְּבָרֲכַ֥נִּי נַפְשֶֽׁךָ׃

Genesis 27:31: 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:808 of Mova's parse database.

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