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title: Genesis 25:25 (JPS 1917) — And the first came forth ruddy, all over like a hairy mantle; and th… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the first came forth ruddy, all over like a hairy mantle; and they called his name Esau. Who acts: first, twins. Genesis 25:25 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 25:25 · JPS 1917

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And the first came forth ruddy, all over like a hairy mantle; and they called his name Esau.

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**Who acts:** first, twins · **What happens:** come, call, name · **To what, where:** name · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Genesis 25:25 · 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 (first, twins), 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:721
# text = And the first came forth ruddy, all over like a hairy mantle; and they called his name Esau.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	first	first	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	ruddy	ruddy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	all	all	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	over	over	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	hairy	hairy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	mantle	mantle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	Esau	Esau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	xcomp	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the first |  |  |  |  | forth, ruddy *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **call** | past | twins *= twin* | first's name |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient |
| 3 | **name** |  | first |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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}

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וַיֵּצֵ֤א הָרִאשׁוֹן֙ אַדְמוֹנִ֔י כֻּלּ֖וֹ כְּאַדֶּ֣רֶת שֵׂעָ֑ר וַיִּקְרְא֥וּ שְׁמ֖וֹ עֵשָֽׂו׃

[Genesis 25:25: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.25.25/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:721` 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.

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