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title: Genesis 25:32 (JPS 1917) — And Esau said: 'Behold, I am at the point to die; and what profit sh… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Esau said: 'Behold, I am at the point to die; and what profit shall the birthright do to me?' Who acts: Esau, I, birthright. Genesis 25:32 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 25:32 · JPS 1917

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And Esau said: 'Behold, I am at the point to die; and what profit shall the birthright do to me?'

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**Who acts:** Esau, I, birthright · **What happens:** say, be, die, do · **To what, where:** point, profit, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Genesis 25:32 · 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, I, birthright), 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:729
# text = And Esau said: 'Behold, I am at the point to die; and what profit shall the birthright do to me?'
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	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
5	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
6	Behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
9	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
17	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	18	det	_	_
18	profit	profit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
19	shall	shall	AUX	MD	_	22	aux	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	birthright	birthright	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	_
25	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
26	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- indirect: yes
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Esau |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | I |  |  | the point |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **die** | to-infinitive | Esau *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **do** | shall | the birthright | what profit | me |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent profit=Eventuality |

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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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וַיֹּ֣אמֶר עֵשָׂ֔ו הִנֵּ֛ה אָנֹכִ֥י הוֹלֵ֖ךְ לָמ֑וּת וְלָמָּה־זֶּ֥ה לִ֖י בְּכֹרָֽה׃

[Genesis 25:32: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.25.32/)

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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:729` 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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