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title: Genesis 27:37 (JPS 1917) — And Isaac answered and said unto Esau: 'Behold, I have made him thy… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Isaac answered and said unto Esau: 'Behold, I have made him thy lord, and all his brethren have I given to him for servants; and with corn and wine have I sustained him; and what then shall I do for thee, my son?' Who acts: Isaac, I. Genesis 27:37 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Genesis 27:37 · JPS 1917

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And Isaac answered and said unto Esau: 'Behold, I have made him thy lord, and all his brethren have I given to him for servants; and with corn and wine have I sustained him; and what then shall I do for thee, my son?'

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**Who acts:** Isaac, I · **What happens:** answer, say, make, give, sustain, do · **To what, where:** Esau, brethren · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Genesis 27:37 · 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 (Isaac, I), 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:814
# text = And Isaac answered and said unto Esau: 'Behold, I have made him thy lord, and all his brethren have I given to him for servants; and with corn and wine have I sustained him; and what then shall I do for thee, my son?'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Isaac	Isaac	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Esau	Esau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
9	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
10	Behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	14	discourse	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	ccomp	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	xcomp	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
20	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	22	det:predet	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	brethren	brethren	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
23	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	conj	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
30	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	38	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
36	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
37	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	sustained	sustain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	conj	_	_
39	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obj	_	_
40	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	46	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
42	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	46	obj	_	_
43	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	46	advmod	_	_
44	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
45	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
46	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
47	for	for	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	46	obl	_	_
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
50	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
51	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	vocative	_	_
52	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
53	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: other
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Isaac |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Isaac *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto Esau | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **make** | present · perfect | I | Esau |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Product |
| 4 | **give** | present · perfect | I | Esau's brethren | Esau |  |  | for servants | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent brethren=Theme to he=Recipient for servant=Asset |
| 5 | **sustain** | present · perfect | I | Esau |  |  |  | with corn and wine | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 6 | **do** | shall | I |  |  |  | then | for thee; my son *vocative* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

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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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וַיַּ֨עַן יִצְחָ֜ק וַיֹּ֣אמֶר לְעֵשָׂ֗ו הֵ֣ן גְּבִ֞יר שַׂמְתִּ֥יו לָךְ֙ וְאֶת־כָּל־אֶחָ֗יו נָתַ֤תִּי לוֹ֙ לַעֲבָדִ֔ים וְדָגָ֥ן וְתִירֹ֖שׁ סְמַכְתִּ֑יו וּלְכָ֣ה אֵפ֔וֹא מָ֥ה אֶֽעֱשֶׂ֖ה בְּנִֽי׃

[Genesis 27:37: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.27.37/)

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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:814` 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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