--- title: Genesis 27:29 (JPS 1917) — Cursed be every one that curseth thee, and blessed be every one that… · tree and pragmatics description: Cursed be every one that curseth thee, and blessed be every one that blesseth thee. Who acts: one. 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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 (one), 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:806 # text = Cursed be every one that curseth thee, and blessed be every one that blesseth thee. 1 Cursed curse VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 2 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 1 aux:pass _ _ 3 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 4 det _ _ 4 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nsubj:pass _ _ 5 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 6 nsubj _ _ 6 curseth curse VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 7 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 6 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 blessed bless VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 conj _ _ 11 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 10 aux:pass _ _ 12 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 13 det _ _ 13 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj:pass _ _ 14 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 15 blesseth bless VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ _ 16 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 15 obj _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: request - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **curse** | infinitive · passive | | every one | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **curse** | present | every one | thee | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme | | 3 | **bless** | infinitive · passive | | every one | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 4 | **bless** | present | every one | thee | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme | 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} 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/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. [Let peoples serve thee, and nations bow down to thee.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.804/) 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.** **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:806` 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 27:29 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.805/) - next →: [Genesis 27:30 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.807/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 27:29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.27.29/)