Genesis 38:27 · JPS 1917
And it came to pass in the time of her travail, that, behold, twins were in her womb.
Who acts: child, twins, harlot · What happens: come, pass, be, travail · To what, where: womb
This is Genesis 38:27 · 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 (child, twins, harlot), 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 | _ | 5 pass | mark |
| 5 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 came | xcomp |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 time | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 time | det |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 travail | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 travail | nmod:poss |
| 11 | travail | travail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 time | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 womb | punct |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 womb | mark |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 behold | punct |
| 15 | behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 21 womb | discourse |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 behold | punct |
| 17 | twins | twin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 womb | nsubj |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 womb | cop |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 womb | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 womb | nmod:poss |
| 21 | womb | womb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | ccomp |
| 22 | . | . | 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 | child | time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pass | to-infinitive | child not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | past | twins | harlot's womb | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | travail | harlot | nom travail «state intransitive»: 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
וַיְהִ֖י בְּעֵ֣ת לִדְתָּ֑הּ וְהִנֵּ֥ה תְאוֹמִ֖ים בְּבִטְנָֽהּ׃
Genesis 38:27: 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:1244 of Mova's parse database.
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