--- title: Genesis 27:4 (JPS 1917) — and make me savoury food, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I… · tree and pragmatics description: and make me savoury food, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat; that my soul may bless thee before I die.' Who acts: you, I, soul. 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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 (you, I, soul), 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:776 # text = and make me savoury food, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat; that my soul may bless thee before I die.' 1 and and CCONJ CC _ 2 cc _ _ 2 make make VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 iobj _ _ 4 savoury savoury ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 det:predet _ _ 8 as as SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 9 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 love love VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 that that SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 19 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 advcl _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 23 that that SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 24 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 soul soul NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 26 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 bless bless VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 advcl _ _ 28 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 27 obj _ _ 29 before before SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 30 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 die die VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 advcl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 33 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | imperative | you *not said here* | such savoury food | me | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary food=Product | | 2 | **love** | present | I | such savoury food *not said here* | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer food=Stimulus | | 3 | **bring** | infinitive | you *not said here* | food | me | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to i=Destination | | 4 | **eat** | may | I | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **bless** | may | my soul | thee | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme | | 6 | **die** | present | I | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | 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} וַעֲשֵׂה־לִ֨י מַטְעַמִּ֜ים כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר אָהַ֛בְתִּי וְהָבִ֥יאָה לִּ֖י וְאֹכֵ֑לָה בַּעֲב֛וּר תְּבָרֶכְךָ֥ נַפְשִׁ֖י בְּטֶ֥רֶם אָמֽוּת׃ [Genesis 27:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.27.4/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:776` 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 27:3 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.775/) - next →: [Genesis 27:5 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.777/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 27:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.27.4/)