--- title: Isaac's son Jacob tricked his twin Esau out of his birthright and bl… — Abraham, Isaac and Jacob · tree and pragmatics description: Isaac's son Jacob tricked his twin Esau out of his birthright and blessing, ran away, dreamed of a ladder to heaven, later wrestled all night and was renamed Israel; his twelve sons became the twelve tribes. Who acts: son, twelve sons. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, twelve sons), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:004-abraham-isaac-and-jacob.lesson:3 # text = Isaac's son Jacob tricked his twin Esau out of his birthright and blessing, ran away, dreamed of a ladder to heaven, later wrestled all night and was renamed Israel; his twelve sons became the twelve tribes. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 004-abraham-isaac-and-jacob.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R3-conj-first ×2, R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Isaac isaac PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 Jacob Jacob PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 flat _ _ 5 tricked trick VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod:poss 7 twin twin NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:compound 8 Esau Esau PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 out out ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 birthright birthright NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 blessing blessing NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 17 away away ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 dreamed dream VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=16:conj 20 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 ladder ladder NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 heaven heaven NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 27 advmod _ _ 27 wrestled wrestle VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=16:conj 28 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 29 det _ _ 29 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl:unmarked _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux:pass _ _ 32 renamed rename VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:conj 33 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 34 ; ; PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 35 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 36 twelve twelve NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 37 nummod _ _ 37 sons son NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nsubj _ _ 38 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 twelve twelve NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 41 nummod _ _ 41 tribes tribe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=38:obj 42 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **trick** | past | Isaac's son | Isaac's twin | | Isaac's birthright and blessing | | | tree rules | | 2 | **run away** | past | Isaac's son *not said here* | | | | | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **dream** | past | Isaac's son *not said here* | | | | | of a ladder to heaven | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **wrestle** | past | Isaac's son *not said here* | | | | night | late *property* | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **rename** | past · passive | Isaac's son *not said here* | Israel | | | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: israel=Result | | 6 | **become** | past | Isaac's twelve sons | the twelve tribes | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:religion-ethics:004-abraham-isaac-and-jacob.lesson:3`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R3-conj-first ×2, R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/4-abraham-isaac-and-jacob/2/) - next →: [Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/4-abraham-isaac-and-jacob/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/4-abraham-isaac-and-jacob/)