--- title: Genesis 32:20 (JPS 1917) — (32-20) And he commanded also the second, and the third, and all tha… · tree and pragmatics description: (32-20) And he commanded also the second, and the third, and all that followed the droves, saying: 'In this manner shall ye speak unto Esau, when ye find him; Who acts: Esau, ye. 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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, ye), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = jps:GEN:1019 # text = (32-20) And he commanded also the second, and the third, and all that followed the droves, saying: 'In this manner shall ye speak unto Esau, when ye find him; 1 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 2 punct _ _ 2 32-20 32-20 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 dep _ _ 3 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 2 punct _ _ 4 And and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 5 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 commanded command VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 also also ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 6 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 third third ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 9 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 9 conj _ _ 17 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 18 followed follow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 droves drove NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 23 : : PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 24 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ _ 25 In in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 27 det _ _ 27 manner manner NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 28 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 29 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 30 nsubj _ _ 30 speak speak VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 ccomp _ _ 31 unto unto ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 Esau Esau PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 when when SCONJ WRB _ 36 mark _ _ 35 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 36 nsubj _ _ 36 find find VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 advcl _ _ 37 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ _ 38 ; ; PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: warn - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **command** | past | Esau | the second | | | | | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent second=Eventuality | | 2 | **follow** | past | | the droves | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drove=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Esau *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | shall | ye | | | this manner | | unto Esau | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **find** | present | ye | Esau | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | 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 {#hebrew} וַיְצַ֞ו גַּ֣ם אֶת־הַשֵּׁנִ֗י גַּ֚ם אֶת־הַשְּׁלִישִׁ֔י גַּ֚ם אֶת־כָּל־הַהֹ֣לְכִ֔ים אַחֲרֵ֥י הָעֲדָרִ֖ים לֵאמֹ֑ר כַּדָּבָ֤ר הַזֶּה֙ תְּדַבְּר֣וּן אֶל־עֵשָׂ֔ו בְּמֹצַאֲכֶ֖ם אֹתֽוֹ׃ [Genesis 32:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.32.20/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:1019` of Mova's parse database. **The tree and the speech act** come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter. - ← previous: [Genesis 32:19 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1018/) - next →: [Genesis 32:21 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1020/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 32:20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.32.20/)