Genesis 32:8 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
(32-8) Then Jacob was greatly afraid and was distressed.
Who acts: Jacob · What happens: be, distress
This is Genesis 32:8 · 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 (Jacob), 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 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 8 afraid | punct |
| 2 | 32-8 | 32-8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 afraid | parataxis |
| 3 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 2 32-8 | punct |
| 4 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 afraid | advmod |
| 5 | Jacob | Jacob | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 afraid | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 afraid | cop |
| 7 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 8 afraid | advmod |
| 8 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 distressed | cc |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 distressed | aux:pass |
| 11 | distressed | distress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 afraid | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 afraid | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Jacob | then | afraid, greatly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | distress | past · passive | Jacob not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
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
וַיִּירָ֧א יַעֲקֹ֛ב מְאֹ֖ד וַיֵּ֣צֶר ל֑וֹ וַיַּ֜חַץ אֶת־הָעָ֣ם אֲשֶׁר־אִתּ֗וֹ וְאֶת־הַצֹּ֧אן וְאֶת־הַבָּקָ֛ר וְהַגְּמַלִּ֖ים לִשְׁנֵ֥י מַחֲנֽוֹת׃
Genesis 32:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- (32-8) Then Jacob was greatly afraid and was distressed.
- And he divided the people that was with him, and the flocks, and the herds, and the camels, into two camps.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:GEN:1006 of Mova's parse database.
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