--- title: Genesis 27:38 (JPS 1917) — And Esau said unto his father: 'Hast thou but one blessing, my fathe… · tree and pragmatics description: And Esau said unto his father: 'Hast thou but one blessing, my father? bless me, even me also, O my father.' And Esau lifted up his voice, and wept. Who acts: Esau. 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And Esau lifted up his voice, and wept. **Who acts:** Esau · **What happens:** say, bless, lift up, weep · **To what, where:** me, voice · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is Genesis 27:38 · 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 (Esau), 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:815 # text = And Esau said unto his father: 'Hast thou but one blessing, my father? bless me, even me also, O my father.' And Esau lifted up his voice, and wept. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 Esau Esau 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 : _ 9 punct _ _ 8 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 9 Hast have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 10 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 9 nsubj _ _ 11 but but ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 13 blessing blessing NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 vocative _ _ 17 ? ? PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ 18 bless bless VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 19 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 even even ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 23 also also ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 O o INTJ UH _ 27 discourse _ _ 26 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 vocative _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ 29 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 30 And and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 Esau Esau PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 32 lifted lift VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 33 up up ADP RP _ 32 compound:prt _ _ 34 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 wept weep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 conj _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: ask - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=q, act=ask, indirect=0 | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Esau | | | | | unto Esau's father | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **bless** | infinitive | | me | | | | my father *vocative* | tree rules | | 3 | **lift up** | past | Esau | Esau's voice | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Theme | | 4 | **weep** | past | Esau *not said here* | | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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 עֵשָׂ֜ו אֶל־אָבִ֗יו הַֽבְרָכָ֨ה אַחַ֤ת הִֽוא־לְךָ֙ אָבִ֔י בָּרֲכֵ֥נִי גַם־אָ֖נִי אָבִ֑י וַיִּשָּׂ֥א עֵשָׂ֛ו קֹל֖וֹ וַיֵּֽבְךְּ׃ [Genesis 27:38: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.27.38/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:815` 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 27:37 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.814/) - next →: [Genesis 27:39 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.816/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 27:38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.27.38/)