Genesis 34:8 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
And Hamor spoke with them, saying 'The soul of my son Shechem longeth for your daughter.
Who acts: Hamor, soul · What happens: speak, say, long · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Genesis 34:8 · 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 (Hamor, soul), 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 | Hamor | Hamor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 spoke | nsubj |
| 3 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 them | case |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 spoke | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 saying | punct |
| 7 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 spoke | advcl |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 soul | punct |
| 9 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 soul | det |
| 10 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 longeth | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 son | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 son | nmod:poss |
| 13 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 soul | nmod |
| 14 | Shechem | Shechem | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 son | appos |
| 15 | longeth | long | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 saying | ccomp |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 daughter | case |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 18 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 longeth | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | Hamor | with cattle | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with they=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | Hamor not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | long | present | the soul of my son | for your daughter | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for daughter=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
וַיְדַבֵּ֥ר חֲמ֖וֹר אִתָּ֣ם לֵאמֹ֑ר שְׁכֶ֣ם בְּנִ֗י חָֽשְׁקָ֤ה נַפְשׁוֹ֙ בְּבִתְּכֶ֔ם תְּנ֨וּ נָ֥א אֹתָ֛הּ ל֖וֹ לְאִשָּֽׁה׃
Genesis 34:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- And Hamor spoke with them, saying 'The soul of my son Shechem longeth for your daughter.
- I pray you give her unto him to wife.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:GEN:1062 of Mova's parse database.
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