Genesis 4:17 · JPS 1917
And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bore Enoch; and he builded a city, and called the name of the city after the name of his son Enoch.
Who acts: Cain, wife · What happens: know, conceive, bear, build, call, name · To what, where: wife, Enoch, city, name, son · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Genesis 4:17 · 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 (Cain, wife), 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 knew | cc |
| 2 | Cain | Cain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 knew | nsubj |
| 3 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 wife | nmod:poss |
| 5 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 knew | obj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 conceived | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 conceived | cc |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 conceived | nsubj |
| 9 | conceived | conceive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 knew | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bore | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 bore | cc |
| 12 | bore | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 conceived | conj |
| 13 | Enoch | Enoch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 bore | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 builded | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 builded | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 builded | nsubj |
| 17 | builded | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 conceived | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 city | det |
| 19 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 builded | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 called | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 called | cc |
| 22 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 builded | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 name | det |
| 24 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 called | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 city | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 city | det |
| 27 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 name | nmod |
| 28 | after | after | ADP | _ | 30 name | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 name | det |
| 30 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 called | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 son | case |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 son | nmod:poss |
| 33 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 name | nmod |
| 34 | Enoch | Enoch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 son | appos |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 knew | 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 | know | past | Cain | Cain's wife | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer wife=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | conceive | past | wife | vn characterize-29.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | bear | past | wife not said here | Enoch | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enoch=Patient | ||||
| 4 | build | past | Cain | a city | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Product | ||||
| 5 | call | past | Cain not said here | the name of the city | after the name of Cain's son | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient | |||
| 6 | name | the city | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | name | Cain's son | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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
וַיֵּ֤דַע קַ֙יִן֙ אֶת־אִשְׁתּ֔וֹ וַתַּ֖הַר וַתֵּ֣לֶד אֶת־חֲנ֑וֹךְ וַֽיְהִי֙ בֹּ֣נֶה עִ֔יר וַיִּקְרָא֙ שֵׁ֣ם הָעִ֔יר כְּשֵׁ֖ם בְּנ֥וֹ חֲנֽוֹךְ׃
Genesis 4:17: 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:106 of Mova's parse database.
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