Genesis 35:18 · JPS 1917
And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing — for she died — that she called his name Ben-oni; but his father called him Benjamin.
Who acts: soul, Rachel, father · What happens: come, pass, departing, die, call, name · To what, where: way, name · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Genesis 35:18 · 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 (soul, Rachel, 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 came | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | expl |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 pass | mark |
| 5 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 came | csubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 departing | punct |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 departing | mark |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 soul | nmod:poss |
| 9 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 departing | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 departing | aux |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 departing | mark |
| 12 | departing | departing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 came | advcl |
| 13 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 died | punct |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 died | mark |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 died | nsubj |
| 16 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | advcl |
| 17 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 called | punct |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 called | mark |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 called | nsubj |
| 20 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | ccomp |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 name | nmod:poss |
| 22 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 called | obj |
| 23 | Ben | Ben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 called | xcomp |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 oni | punct |
| 25 | oni | oni | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Ben | flat |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 called | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 called | cc |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 father | nmod:poss |
| 29 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 called | nsubj |
| 30 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 called | obj |
| 32 | Benjamin | Benjamin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 called | xcomp |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | way | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | pass | to-infinitive | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | departing | past · progressive | Rachel's soul | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | die | past | Rachel | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | call | past | Rachel | soul's name | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | call | past | soul's father | name | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 7 | name | soul | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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
וַיְהִ֞י בְּצֵ֤את נַפְשָׁהּ֙ כִּ֣י מֵ֔תָה וַתִּקְרָ֥א שְׁמ֖וֹ בֶּנ־אוֹנִ֑יבֶּנ־אוֹנִ֑י וְאָבִ֖יו קָֽרָא־ל֥וֹ בִנְיָמִֽין׃
Genesis 35:18: 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:1106 of Mova's parse database.
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