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title: Genesis 25:34 (JPS 1917) — And Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentils; and he did eat and… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentils; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way. Who acts: Jacob. Genesis 25:34 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 25:34 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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And Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentils; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way.

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**Who acts:** Jacob · **What happens:** give, eat, drink, rise up, go · **To what, where:** bread, Esau, way

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This is Genesis 25:34 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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 (Jacob), 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:731
# text = And Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentils; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Jacob	Jacob	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Esau	Esau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	iobj	_	_
5	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	pottage	pottage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	lentils	lentil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl:unmarked	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **give** | past | Jacob | bread of lentils and pottage | Esau |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent esau=Recipient bread=Theme |
| 2 | **eat** | past · do-support | Jacob |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **drink** | infinitive | Jacob *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **rise up** | past | Jacob *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **go** | past | Jacob *not said here* | Jacob's way |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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וְיַעֲקֹ֞ב נָתַ֣ן לְעֵשָׂ֗ו לֶ֚חֶם וּנְזִ֣יד עֲדָשִׁ֔ים וַיֹּ֣אכַל וַיֵּ֔שְׁתְּ וַיָּ֖קָם וַיֵּלַ֑ךְ וַיִּ֥בֶז עֵשָׂ֖ו אֶת־הַבְּכֹרָֽה׃ס

[Genesis 25:34: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.25.34/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **And Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentils; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way.**
2. [So Esau despised his birthright.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.732/)

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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:731` 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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