Genesis 39:9 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2
How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?'
Who acts: I · What happens: do, sin · To what, where: great wickedness
This is Genesis 39:9 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 (I), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 then | advmod |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 do | advmod |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 do | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 wickedness | det |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 wickedness | amod |
| 8 | wickedness | wickedness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 do | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sin | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 sin | cc |
| 11 | sin | sin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 do | conj |
| 12 | against | against | ADP | _ | 13 God | case |
| 13 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 sin | nmod |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
Pragmatics
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | can | I | this great wickedness | then | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wickedness=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | sin | infinitive | I not said here | against God | vn rebel-71.2-1-1 «NP V PP.maleficiary»: agent=Agent against god=Maleficiary |
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
אֵינֶ֨נּוּ גָד֜וֹל בַּבַּ֣יִת הַזֶּה֮ מִמֶּנִּי֒ וְלֹֽא־חָשַׂ֤ךְ מִמֶּ֙נִּי֙ מְא֔וּמָה כִּ֥י אִם־אוֹתָ֖ךְ בַּאֲשֶׁ֣ר אַתְּ־אִשְׁתּ֑וֹ וְאֵ֨יךְ אֶֽעֱשֶׂ֜ה הָרָעָ֤ה הַגְּדֹלָה֙ הַזֹּ֔את וְחָטָ֖אתִי לֵֽאלֹהִֽים׃
Genesis 39:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- he is not greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou art his wife.
- How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?'
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:GEN:1259 of Mova's parse database.
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