Genesis 34:19 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
And the young man deferred not to do the thing, because he had delight in Jacob's daughter.
Who acts: young man, Shechem · What happens: not defer, do, have · To what, where: thing, delight
This is Genesis 34:19 · 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 (young man, 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 | _ | 5 deferred | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 deferred | nsubj |
| 5 | deferred | defer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 deferred | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 do | mark |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 deferred | xcomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 thing | det |
| 10 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 do | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 had | punct |
| 12 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 14 had | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 had | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 deferred | advcl |
| 15 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 had | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 daughter | case |
| 17 | Jacob | Jacob | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 Jacob | case |
| 19 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 delight | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 deferred | punct |
Pragmatics
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not defer | past | the young man | vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | the young man not said here | the thing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | have | past | Shechem | delight | in Jacob's daughter | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent delight=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
וְלֹֽא־אֵחַ֤ר הַנַּ֙עַר֙ לַעֲשׂ֣וֹת הַדָּבָ֔ר כִּ֥י חָפֵ֖ץ בְּבַֽת־יַעֲקֹ֑ב וְה֣וּא נִכְבָּ֔ד מִכֹּ֖ל בֵּ֥ית אָבִֽיו׃
Genesis 34:19: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- And the young man deferred not to do the thing, because he had delight in Jacob's daughter.
- And he was honoured above all the house of his father.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:GEN:1074 of Mova's parse database.
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