Genesis 34:27 · JPS 1917
The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and spoiled the city, because they had defiled their sister.
Who acts: sons, men · What happens: come, spoil, defile · To what, where: slain, city, sister
This is Genesis 34:27 · 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 (sons, men), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sons | det |
| 2 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 came | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Jacob | case |
| 4 | Jacob | Jacob | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 sons | nmod |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 8 slain | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 slain | det |
| 8 | slain | slain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 came | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 spoiled | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 spoiled | cc |
| 11 | spoiled | spoil | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 city | det |
| 13 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 spoiled | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 defiled | punct |
| 15 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 18 defiled | mark |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 defiled | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 defiled | aux |
| 18 | defiled | defile | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 spoiled | advcl |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 sister | nmod:poss |
| 20 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 defiled | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the sons of Jacob | the slain | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon slain=Location | ||||
| 2 | spoil | past | the sons of Jacob not said here | the city | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | defile | past · perfect | men = man | men's sister | tree rules |
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
בְּנֵ֣י יַעֲקֹ֗ב בָּ֚אוּ עַל־הַ֣חֲלָלִ֔ים וַיָּבֹ֖זּוּ הָעִ֑יר אֲשֶׁ֥ר טִמְּא֖וּ אֲחוֹתָֽם׃
Genesis 34:27: 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:1083 of Mova's parse database.
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