--- title: Genesis 27:19 (JPS 1917) — And Jacob said unto his father: 'I am Esau thy first-born; I have do… · tree and pragmatics description: And Jacob said unto his father: 'I am Esau thy first-born; I have done according as thou badest me. Who acts: Jacob, I, thou. Genesis 27:19 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.792/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Torah](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/) / [Genesis](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/) / [chapter 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/27/) / [27:19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.27.19/) / JPS 1 # Genesis 27:19 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 And Jacob said unto his father: 'I am Esau thy first-born; I have done according as thou badest me. **Who acts:** Jacob, I, thou · **What happens:** say, be, do, accord, bid · **To what, where:** Esau, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is Genesis 27:19 · 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, I, thou), 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:792 # text = And Jacob said unto his father: 'I am Esau thy first-born; I have done according as thou badest me. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 Jacob Jacob PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 unto unto ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 8 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 9 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 10 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 11 Esau Esau PROPN NNP _ 3 ccomp _ _ 12 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 15 nmod:poss _ _ 13 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 15 amod _ _ 14 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 13 punct _ _ 15 born bear NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 appos _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 17 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 11 parataxis _ _ 20 according accord VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 23 mark _ _ 21 as as SCONJ IN _ 20 fixed _ _ 22 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 23 nsubj _ _ 23 badest bid VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ _ 24 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - 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 | Jacob | | | | | unto Jacob's father | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | present | I | Esau | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **do** | present · perfect | I | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **accord** | gerund | | | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **bid** | past | thou | me | | | | | tree rules | 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 יַעֲקֹ֜ב אֶל־אָבִ֗יו אָנֹכִי֙ עֵשָׂ֣ו בְּכֹרֶ֔ךָ עָשִׂ֕יתִי כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר דִּבַּ֖רְתָּ אֵלָ֑י קֽוּם־נָ֣א שְׁבָ֗ה וְאָכְלָה֙ מִצֵּידִ֔י בַּעֲב֖וּר תְּבָרֲכַ֥נִּי נַפְשֶֽׁךָ׃ [Genesis 27:19: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.27.19/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. **And Jacob said unto his father: 'I am Esau thy first-born; I have done according as thou badest me.** 2. [Arise, I pray thee, sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.793/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:792` 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 27:18 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.791/) - next →: [Genesis 27:19 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.793/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 27:19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.27.19/)