Genesis 4:20 · JPS 1917
And Adah bore Jabal; he was the father of such as dwell in tents and have cattle.
Who acts: Adah, Lamech, father · What happens: bear, be, dwell, have · To what, where: Jabal, tents, cattle
This is Genesis 4:20 · 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 (Adah, Lamech, father), 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 bore | cc |
| 2 | Adah | Adah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 bore | nsubj |
| 3 | bore | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Jabal | Jabal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 bore | obj |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 father | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 father | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 father | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 father | det |
| 9 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bore | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 father | case |
| 11 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 9 father | amod |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 father | case |
| 13 | dwell | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 father | acl:relcl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 tents | case |
| 15 | tents | tent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 dwell | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 have | cc |
| 17 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 dwell | conj |
| 18 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 have | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bore | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
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- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | past | Adah | Jabal | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jabal=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Lamech | of the father | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | dwell | present | the father not said here | tents | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tent=Location | ||||
| 4 | have | present | the father not said here | cattle | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cattle=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
וַתֵּ֥לֶד עָדָ֖ה אֶת־יָבָ֑ל ה֣וּא הָיָ֔ה אֲבִ֕י יֹשֵׁ֥ב אֹ֖הֶל וּמִקְנֶֽה׃
Genesis 4:20: 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:109 of Mova's parse database.
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