Genesis 5:29 · JPS 1917
And he called his name Noah, saying: 'This same shall comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, which cometh from the ground which the LORD hath cursed.'
Who acts: Lamech, same, toil, LORD, our, hands · What happens: call, say, comfort, come, curse, name · To what, where: name, us, work, ground · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Genesis 5:29 · 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 (Lamech, same, toil, LORD), 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 called | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 called | nsubj |
| 3 | called | call | 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 name | nmod:poss |
| 5 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 called | obj |
| 6 | Noah | Noah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 called | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 saying | punct |
| 8 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 called | advcl |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 comfort | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 comfort | punct |
| 11 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 same | det |
| 12 | same | same | PRON | Number=Sing | 14 comfort | nsubj |
| 13 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 comfort | aux |
| 14 | comfort | comfort | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 saying | ccomp |
| 15 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 comfort | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 work | case |
| 17 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 work | nmod:poss |
| 18 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 comfort | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 toil | cc |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 toil | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 toil | det |
| 22 | toil | toil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 work | conj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 hands | case |
| 24 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 hands | nmod:poss |
| 25 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 toil | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 cometh | punct |
| 27 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 cometh | nsubj |
| 28 | cometh | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 toil | acl:relcl |
| 29 | from | from | ADP | _ | 31 ground | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 ground | det |
| 31 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 cometh | obl |
| 32 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 cursed | obj |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 LORD | det |
| 34 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 cursed | nsubj |
| 35 | hath | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 cursed | aux |
| 36 | cursed | curse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 ground | acl:relcl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 called | punct |
| 38 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 called | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | Lamech | Lamech's name | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | Lamech not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | comfort | shall | same | us | our work and the toil of our hands | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus we=Experiencer | |||
| 4 | come | present | the toil of our hands | the ground | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from ground=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | curse | present · perfect | the LORD | the ground | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme | ||||
| 6 | name | Lamech | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | work | our | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | toil | our hands | nom toil «act intransitive»: of=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
וַיִּקְרָ֧א אֶת־שְׁמ֛וֹ נֹ֖חַ לֵאמֹ֑ר זֶ֞֠ה יְנַחֲמֵ֤נוּ מִֽמַּעֲשֵׂ֙נוּ֙ וּמֵעִצְּב֣וֹן יָדֵ֔ינוּ מִן־הָ֣אֲדָמָ֔ה אֲשֶׁ֥ר אֵֽרְרָ֖הּ יְהוָֽה׃
Genesis 5:29: 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:145 of Mova's parse database.
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