Deuteronomy 27:20 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
Cursed be he that lieth with his father's wife; because he hath uncovered his father's skirt.
Who acts: Amen · What happens: curse, lie, uncover · To what, where: Amen, skirt
This is Deuteronomy 27:20 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 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 (Amen), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cursed | curse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Cursed | aux:pass |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Cursed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 lieth | nsubj |
| 5 | lieth | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 he | acl:relcl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 wife | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 father | nmod:poss |
| 8 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wife | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 father | case |
| 10 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lieth | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 uncovered | punct |
| 12 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 15 uncovered | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 uncovered | nsubj |
| 14 | hath | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 uncovered | aux |
| 15 | uncovered | uncover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 1 Cursed | advcl |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 father | nmod:poss |
| 17 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 skirt | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 father | case |
| 19 | skirt | skirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 uncovered | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Cursed | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- express
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=express, voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | curse | infinitive · passive | Amen | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | lie | present | with Amen's father's wife | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | uncover | present · perfect | Amen | Amen's father's skirt | tree rules |
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
אָר֗וּר שֹׁכֵב֙ עִם־אֵ֣שֶׁת אָבִ֔יו כִּ֥י גִלָּ֖ה כְּנַ֣ף אָבִ֑יו וְאָמַ֥ר כָּל־הָעָ֖ם אָמֵֽן׃ס
Deuteronomy 27:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- Cursed be he that lieth with his father's wife; because he hath uncovered his father's skirt.
- And all the people shall say: Amen.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:DEU:724 of Mova's parse database.
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