--- title: Jacob tricked his blind father Isaac to take Esau's blessing (Genesi… — Trust that breaks and takes long to mend · tree and pragmatics description: Jacob tricked his blind father Isaac to take Esau's blessing (Genesis 27); he had to run away, was tricked in turn by his uncle Laban (Genesis 29), and years later Esau ran to hug him (Genesis 33:4). Who acts: Jacob, righteous, uncle, Esau. 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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 (Jacob, righteous, uncle, Esau), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:082-trust-that-breaks-and-takes-long-to-mend.lesson:12 # text = Jacob tricked his blind father Isaac to take Esau's blessing (Genesis 27); he had to run away, was tricked in turn by his uncle Laban (Genesis 29), and years later Esau ran to hug him (Genesis 33:4). # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 082-trust-that-breaks-and-takes-long-to-mend.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): R5-strong ×6, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Jacob Jacob PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 tricked trick VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod:poss 4 blind blind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:amod 5 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:compound 6 Isaac Isaac PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:obj 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 9 Esau Esau PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod:poss _ _ 10 's 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 blessing blessing NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 12 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 13 punct _ _ 13 Genesis Genesis PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 appos _ _ 14 27 27 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 flat _ _ 15 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 13 punct _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 run run VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ _ 21 away away ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux:pass _ _ 24 tricked trick VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj 25 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 turn turn NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 27 by by ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 uncle uncle NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 30 Laban Laban PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 appos _ _ 31 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 32 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=33:punct 32 Genesis Genesis PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nmod:unmarked _ _ 33 29 29 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 30 appos _ _ 34 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 33 punct _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 37 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obl:unmarked _ _ 38 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 40 advmod _ _ 39 Esau Esau PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 40 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 41 to to PART TO _ 42 mark _ _ 42 hug hug VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 xcomp _ _ 43 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 obj _ _ 44 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 45 punct _ _ 45 Genesis Genesis PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 parataxis _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=42:obj 46 33:4 33:4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 45 flat _ _ 47 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 45 punct _ _ 48 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **trick** | past | Jacob | righteous's blind father | | | | | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Patient | | 2 | **take** | to-infinitive | Jacob *not said here* | Esau's blessing | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blessing=Theme | | 3 | **have** | past | righteous | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **run away** | to-infinitive | righteous *not said here* | | | | | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **trick** | past · passive | righteous's uncle | | | turn | | | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **run** | past | Esau | | | | | late *property* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 7 | **hug** | to-infinitive | Esau *not said here* | righteous | | | | | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | | 8 | **bless** | | Esau | | | | | | nom blessing «act transitive»: poss=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. **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:082-trust-that-breaks-and-takes-long-to-mend.lesson:12`. **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): R5-strong ×6, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. **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: [Trust that breaks and takes long to mend, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/82-trust-that-breaks-and-takes-long-to-mend/11/) - next →: [Trust that breaks and takes long to mend, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/82-trust-that-breaks-and-takes-long-to-mend/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/82-trust-that-breaks-and-takes-long-to-mend/)