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title: Genesis 27:29 (JPS 1917) — Let peoples serve thee, and nations bow down to thee. · tree and pragmatics
description: Let peoples serve thee, and nations bow down to thee. Who acts: peoples, nations. Genesis 27:29 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 27:29 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 3

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Let peoples serve thee, and nations bow down to thee.

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**Who acts:** peoples, nations · **What happens:** let, serve, bow down · **To what, where:** thee

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This is Genesis 27:29 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 3 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 (peoples, nations), 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:804
# text = Let peoples serve thee, and nations bow down to thee.
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	peoples	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nsubj	_	_
3	serve	serve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl	_	_
4	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	nations	nation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	bow	bow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
9	down	down	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	8	obl	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=request

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | infinitive | peoples |  |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **serve** | infinitive | peoples *not said here* | thee |  |  |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Attribute |
| 3 | **bow down** | infinitive | nations |  |  |  |  | to thee; down *property* | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to thou=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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יַֽעַבְד֣וּךָ עַמִּ֗ים וְיִֽשְׁתַּחֲו֤וּלְךָ֙ לְאֻמִּ֔ים הֱוֵ֤ה גְבִיר֙ לְאַחֶ֔יךָ וְיִשְׁתַּחֲוּ֥וּלְךָ֖ בְּנֵ֣י אִמֶּ֑ךָ אֹרְרֶ֣יךָ אָר֔וּר וּֽמְבָרֲכֶ֖יךָ בָּרֽוּךְ׃

[Genesis 27:29: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.27.29/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **Let peoples serve thee, and nations bow down to thee.**
2. [Be lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother's sons bow down to thee.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.805/)
3. [Cursed be every one that curseth thee, and blessed be every one that blesseth thee.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.806/)

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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:804` 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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