Genesis 34:4 · JPS 1917
And Shechem spoke unto his father Hamor, saying: 'Get me this damsel to wife.'
Who acts: Shechem · What happens: speak, say, get · To what, where: damsel, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Genesis 34:4 · 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 (Shechem), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 spoke | cc |
| 2 | Shechem | Shechem | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 spoke | nsubj |
| 3 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 6 father | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 father | nmod:poss |
| 6 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spoke | obl |
| 7 | Hamor | Hamor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 father | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 saying | punct |
| 9 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 spoke | advcl |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 Get | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 Get | punct |
| 12 | Get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 saying | ccomp |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 Get | iobj |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 damsel | det |
| 15 | damsel | damsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Get | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 wife | case |
| 17 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Get | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 Get | punct |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 Get | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | Shechem | unto Shechem's father | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | Shechem not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | get | infinitive | this damsel | me | to wife | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary damsel=Theme |
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
וַיֹּ֣אמֶר שְׁכֶ֔ם אֶל־חֲמ֥וֹר אָבִ֖יו לֵאמֹ֑ר קַֽח־לִ֛י אֶת־הַיַּלְדָּ֥ה הַזֹּ֖את לְאִשָּֽׁה׃
Genesis 34:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:GEN:1058 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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