Genesis 27:42 · JPS 1917

And the words of Esau her elder son were told to Rebekah; and she sent and called Jacob her younger son, and said unto him: 'Behold, thy brother Esau, as touching thee, doth comfort himself, purposing to kill thee.

Who acts: Rebekah, brother · What happens: tell, send, call, say, touch, comfort · To what, where: words, Rebekah, Jacob, thee, brother, Esau · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Genesis 27:42 · 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 (Rebekah, brother), 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	_	10 told	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 words	det
3	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 told	nsubj:pass
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Esau	case
5	Esau	Esau	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 words	nmod
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 son	nmod:poss
7	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 son	amod
8	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Esau	appos
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 told	aux:pass
10	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 Rebekah	case
12	Rebekah	Rebekah	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 told	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 sent	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 sent	cc
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 sent	nsubj
16	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 told	conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 called	cc
18	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 sent	conj
19	Jacob	Jacob	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 called	obj
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 son	nmod:poss
21	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 son	amod
22	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 Jacob	appos
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 said	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 said	cc
25	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 sent	conj
26	unto	unto	ADP	_	27 him	case
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 said	obl
28	:	:	PUNCT	_	25 said	punct
29	'	'	PUNCT	_	41 comfort	punct
30	Behold	behold	INTJ	_	41 comfort	discourse
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 brother	punct
32	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	33 brother	nmod:poss
33	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 comfort	nsubj
34	Esau	Esau	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 brother	appos
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 touching	punct
36	as	as	SCONJ	_	37 touching	mark
37	touching	touch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	41 comfort	advcl
38	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	37 touching	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 touching	punct
40	doth	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 comfort	aux
41	comfort	comfort	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 said	ccomp
42	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	41 comfort	obj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 purposing	punct
44	purposing	purpose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	41 comfort	advcl
45	to	to	PART	_	46 kill	mark
46	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 purposing	xcomp
47	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	46 kill	obj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 told	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: changed act=narrate, voice=narrator

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · passive		the words of Esau	Rebekah		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to rebekah=Recipient
2	send	past	Rebekah				vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	call	past	Rebekah not said here		Jacob		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent jacob=Recipient
4	say speech: assert	past	Rebekah not said here			unto Esau	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	touch	gerund	thy brother not said here	thee			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme thou=Co-Theme
6	comfort	present · do-support	thy brother	brother			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer
7	purpose speech: other	gerund	thy brother not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	kill	to-infinitive	thy brother not said here	thee			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme
9	word			Esau			nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient

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

וַיֻּגַּ֣ד לְרִבְקָ֔ה אֶת־דִּבְרֵ֥י עֵשָׂ֖ו בְּנָ֣הּ הַגָּדֹ֑ל וַתִּשְׁלַ֞ח וַתִּקְרָ֤א לְיַעֲקֹב֙ בְּנָ֣הּ הַקָּטָ֔ן וַתֹּ֣אמֶר אֵלָ֔יו הִנֵּה֙ עֵשָׂ֣ו אָחִ֔יךָ מִתְנַחֵ֥ם לְךָ֖ לְהָרְגֶֽךָ׃

Genesis 27:42: 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:820 of Mova's parse database.

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