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title: Genesis 27:41 (JPS 1917) — And Esau said in his heart: 'Let the days of mourning for my father… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Esau said in his heart: 'Let the days of mourning for my father be at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob.' Who acts: Esau, father, I. Genesis 27:41 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 27:41 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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And Esau said in his heart: 'Let the days of mourning for my father be at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob.'

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**Who acts:** Esau, father, I · **What happens:** say, let, be, slay · **To what, where:** heart, hand, brother · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Genesis 27:41 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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, father, 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:819
# text = And Esau said in his heart: 'Let the days of mourning for my father be at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob.'
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	in	in	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	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	mourning	mourning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
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	19	nsubj	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	cop	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	advcl	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
21	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	_	24	aux	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	slay	slay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
25	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	Jacob	Jacob	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
29	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Esau |  |  | Esau's heart |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **let** | infinitive |  |  |  |  | day |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | infinitive | my father |  |  | hand |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **slay** | future | I | my brother |  |  | then |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Patient |

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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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וַיִּשְׂטֹ֤ם עֵשָׂו֙ אֶֽת־יַעֲקֹ֔ב עַל־הַ֨בְּרָכָ֔ה אֲשֶׁ֥ר בֵּרֲכ֖וֹ אָבִ֑יו וַיֹּ֨אמֶר עֵשָׂ֜ו בְּלִבּ֗וֹ יִקְרְבוּ֙ יְמֵי֙ אֵ֣בֶל אָבִ֔י וְאַֽהַרְגָ֖ה אֶת־יַעֲקֹ֥ב אָחִֽי׃

[Genesis 27:41: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.27.41/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.818/)
2. **And Esau said in his heart: 'Let the days of mourning for my father be at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob.'**

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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:819` 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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