Genesis 35:17 · JPS 1917

And it came to pass, when she was in hard labour, that the mid-wife said unto her: 'Fear not; for this also is a son for thee.'

Who acts: way, Rachel, mid-wife, this · What happens: come, pass, be, say, not fear · To what, where: hard labour, son · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Genesis 35:17 · 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 (way, Rachel, mid-wife, this), 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 came	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	3 came	mark
5	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 came	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 labour	punct
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 labour	mark
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 labour	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 labour	cop
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 labour	case
11	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 labour	amod
12	labour	labour	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 said	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 mid-wife	det
16	mid-wife	mid-wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	nsubj
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	ccomp
18	unto	unto	ADP	_	19 her	case
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 said	obl
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 Fear	punct
21	'	'	PUNCT	_	22 Fear	punct
22	Fear	fear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 said	ccomp
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 Fear	advmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 son	punct
25	for	for	SCONJ	_	30 son	mark
26	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 son	nsubj
27	also	also	ADV	_	30 son	advmod
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 son	cop
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 son	det
30	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 Fear	advcl
31	for	for	ADP	_	32 thee	case
32	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	30 son	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct
34	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed form=decl, act=narrate, indirect=0, polarity=none, voice=narrator

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	way				tree rules
2	pass	infinitive	way not said here				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	Rachel		hard labour		tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past	the mid-wife			unto Rachel	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	not fear	infinitive					vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	is a	present	this	a son		for thee	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

וַיְהִ֥י בְהַקְשֹׁתָ֖הּ בְּלִדְתָּ֑הּ וַתֹּ֨אמֶר לָ֤הּ הַמְיַלֶּ֙דֶת֙ אַל־תִּ֣ירְאִ֔י כִּֽי־גַם־זֶ֥ה לָ֖ךְ בֵּֽן׃

Genesis 35:17: 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:1105 of Mova's parse database.

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