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title: Genesis 27:15 (JPS 1917) — And Rebekah took the choicest garments of Esau her elder son, which… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Rebekah took the choicest garments of Esau her elder son, which were with her in the house, and put them upon Jacob her younger son. Who acts: Rebekah, Esau. Genesis 27:15 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 27:15 · JPS 1917

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And Rebekah took the choicest garments of Esau her elder son, which were with her in the house, and put them upon Jacob her younger son.

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**Who acts:** Rebekah, Esau · **What happens:** take, garment, be, put · **To what, where:** house, garments

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This is Genesis 27:15 · 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 (Rebekah, Esau), 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:788
# text = And Rebekah took the choicest garments of Esau her elder son, which were with her in the house, and put them upon Jacob her younger son.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Rebekah	Rebekah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	choicest	choice	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
6	garments	garment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Esau	Esau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	elder	elder	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	acl:relcl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Jacob	Jacob	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	28	amod	_	_
28	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	_
29	.	.	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 | **take** | past | Rebekah |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **garment** |  |  |  |  |  |  | of Esau | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | Esau *not said here* |  |  | the house |  | with Rebekah | tree rules |
| 4 | **put** | past | Rebekah *not said here* | garments *= garment* |  |  |  | upon Jacob | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme upon jacob=Destination |

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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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וַתִּקַּ֣ח רִ֠בְקָה אֶת־בִּגְדֵ֨י עֵשָׂ֜ו בְּנָ֤הּ הַגָּדֹל֙ הַחֲמֻדֹ֔ת אֲשֶׁ֥ר אִתָּ֖הּ בַּבָּ֑יִת וַתַּלְבֵּ֥שׁ אֶֽת־יַעֲקֹ֖ב בְּנָ֥הּ הַקָּטָֽן׃

[Genesis 27:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.27.15/)

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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:788` 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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