Genesis 4:25 · JPS 1917
And Adam knew his wife again; and she bore a son, and called his name Seth: 'for God hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel; for Cain slew him.'
Who acts: Adam, wife, God, Cain · What happens: know, bear, call, appoint, slay, name · To what, where: wife, son, name, seed, me, God · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Genesis 4:25 · 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 (Adam, wife, God, Cain), 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 knew | cc |
| 2 | Adam | Adam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 knew | nsubj |
| 3 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 wife | nmod:poss |
| 5 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 knew | obj |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 knew | advmod |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 bore | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 bore | cc |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 bore | nsubj |
| 10 | bore | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 knew | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 son | det |
| 12 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bore | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 called | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 called | cc |
| 15 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 bore | conj |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 name | nmod:poss |
| 17 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 called | obj |
| 18 | Seth | Seth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 called | xcomp |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 appointed | punct |
| 20 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 appointed | punct |
| 21 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 24 appointed | mark |
| 22 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 appointed | nsubj |
| 23 | hath | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 appointed | aux |
| 24 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 called | ccomp |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 appointed | iobj |
| 26 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 27 seed | det |
| 27 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 appointed | obj |
| 28 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 30 Abel | case |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 instead | fixed |
| 30 | Abel | Abel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 appointed | obl |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 slew | punct |
| 32 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 34 slew | mark |
| 33 | Cain | Cain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 slew | nsubj |
| 34 | slew | slay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 appointed | advcl |
| 35 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 slew | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 called | punct |
| 37 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 called | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- changed polarity=pos
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | Adam | Adam's wife | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer wife=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | bear | past | wife | a son | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient | ||||
| 3 | call speech: assert | past | wife not said here | Adam's name | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | appoint | present · perfect | God | another seed | me | instead Abel | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme seed=Attribute | ||
| 5 | slay | past | Cain | God | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 6 | name | Adam | 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
וַיֵּ֨דַע אָדָ֥ם עוֹד֙ אֶת־אִשְׁתּ֔וֹ וַתֵּ֣לֶד בֵּ֔ן וַתִּקְרָ֥א אֶת־שְׁמ֖וֹ שֵׁ֑ת כִּ֣י שָֽׁת־לִ֤י אֱלֹהִים֙ זֶ֣רַע אַחֵ֔ר תַּ֣חַת הֶ֔בֶל כִּ֥י הֲרָג֖וֹ קָֽיִן׃
Genesis 4:25: 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:114 of Mova's parse database.
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