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title: Genesis 27:19 (JPS 1917) — Arise, I pray thee, sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may ble… · tree and pragmatics
description: Arise, I pray thee, sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me.' Who acts: you, I, soul. Genesis 27:19 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 27:19 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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Arise, I pray thee, sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me.'

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**Who acts:** you, I, soul · **What happens:** arise, pray, sit, eat, bless · **To what, where:** thee, me

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This is Genesis 27:19 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 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 (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:793
# text = Arise, I pray thee, sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me.'
1	Arise	arise	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	pray	pray	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
5	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	sit	sit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	eat	eat	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	venison	venison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	bless	bless	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
19	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
21	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arise** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **pray** | present | I | thee |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **sit** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **eat** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of my venison | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of venison=Source |
| 5 | **bless** | may | thy soul | me |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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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/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [And Jacob said unto his father: 'I am Esau thy first-born; I have done according as thou badest me.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.792/)
2. **Arise, I pray thee, sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me.'**

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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:793` 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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