--- title: Genesis 27:40 (JPS 1917) — And by thy sword shalt thou live, and thou shalt serve thy brother;… · tree and pragmatics description: And by thy sword shalt thou live, and thou shalt serve thy brother; and it shall come to pass when thou shalt break loose, that thou shalt shake his yoke from off thy neck. Who acts: thou, sword. 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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 (thou, sword), 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:817 # text = And by thy sword shalt thou live, and thou shalt serve thy brother; and it shall come to pass when thou shalt break loose, that thou shalt shake his yoke from off thy neck. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 2 by by ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 5 shalt shall AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 6 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 7 nsubj _ _ 7 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 10 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 12 nsubj _ _ 11 shalt shall AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 serve serve VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 13 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 pass pass VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 xcomp _ _ 22 when when SCONJ WRB _ 25 mark _ _ 23 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 25 nsubj _ _ 24 shalt shall AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 break break VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 advcl _ _ 26 loose loose ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 that that SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 29 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 31 nsubj _ _ 30 shalt shall AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 shake shake VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 advcl _ _ 32 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 yoke yoke NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 from from ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 off off ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | shall | thou | | | | | by thy sword | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by sword=Location | | 2 | **serve** | shall | thou | thy brother | | | | | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Attribute | | 3 | **come** | shall | sword | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **pass** | to-infinitive | sword *not said here* | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **break** | shall | thou | | | | | loose *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **shake** | shall | thou | brother's yoke | | thy neck | | | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent yoke=Theme from neck=Trajectory | 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} וְעַל־חַרְבְּךָ֣ תִֽחְיֶ֔ה וְאֶת־אָחִ֖יךָ תַּעֲבֹ֑ד וְהָיָה֙ כַּאֲשֶׁ֣ר תָּרִ֔יד וּפָרַקְתָּ֥ עֻלּ֖וֹ מֵעַ֥ל צַוָּארֶֽךָ׃ [Genesis 27:40: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.27.40/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:817` 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 27:39 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.816/) - next →: [Genesis 27:41 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.818/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 27:40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.27.40/)