--- title: Genesis 25:30 (JPS 1917) — And Esau said to Jacob: 'Let me swallow, I pray thee, some of this r… · tree and pragmatics description: And Esau said to Jacob: 'Let me swallow, I pray thee, some of this red, red pottage; for I am faint.' Therefore was his name called Edom. Who acts: Esau, me, I. 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Therefore was his name called Edom. **Who acts:** Esau, me, I · **What happens:** say, let, swallow, pray, be, call · **To what, where:** Jacob, me, some, thee, name · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is Genesis 25:30 · 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 (Esau, me, I), 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:727 # text = And Esau said to Jacob: 'Let me swallow, I pray thee, some of this red, red pottage; for I am faint.' Therefore was his name called Edom. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 Esau Esau PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Jacob Jacob PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 7 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 8 Let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 9 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 swallow swallow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 xcomp _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 pray pray VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 14 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 13 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 some some PRON DT PronType=Ind 10 obj _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 18 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 22 det _ _ 19 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 pottage pottage NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 24 for for SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 25 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 27 faint faint ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 advcl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ 29 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ 30 Therefore therefore ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 31 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux:pass _ _ 32 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj:pass _ _ 34 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ _ 35 Edom Edom PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 xcomp _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Esau | | Jacob | | | | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to jacob=Experiencer clause=Topic | | 2 | **let** | infinitive | | me | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **swallow** | infinitive | me *not said here* | some | | | | | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Patient | | 4 | **pray** | present | I | thee | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | present | I | | | | | faint *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **call** | past · passive | | Esau's name | | | | therefore *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 7 | **name** | | Esau | | | | | | nom name «communication 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. ## The Hebrew of this verse {#hebrew} וַיֹּ֨אמֶר עֵשָׂ֜ו אֶֽל־יַעֲקֹ֗ב הַלְעִיטֵ֤נִי נָא֙ מִן־הָאָדֹ֤ם הָאָדֹם֙ הַזֶּ֔ה כִּ֥י עָיֵ֖ף אָנֹ֑כִי עַל־כֵּ֥ן קָרָֽא־שְׁמ֖וֹ אֱדֽוֹם׃ [Genesis 25:30: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.25.30/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:727` 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 25:29 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.726/) - next →: [Genesis 25:31 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.728/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 25:30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.25.30/)