Genesis 6:1 · JPS 1917

And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,

Who acts: it, men · What happens: come, pass, begin, multiply, bear · To what, where: face, daughters

This is Genesis 6:1 · 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 (it, men), 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	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 began	punct
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 began	mark
8	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 began	nsubj
9	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	advcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 multiply	mark
11	multiply	multiply	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 began	xcomp
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 face	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 face	det
14	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 multiply	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 earth	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 earth	det
17	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 face	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 born	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 born	cc
20	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 born	nsubj:pass
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 born	aux:pass
22	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 began	conj
23	unto	unto	ADP	_	24 them	case
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 born	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	it				tree rules
2	pass	to-infinitive					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	begin	past	men				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	multiply	to-infinitive	men not said here		the face of the earth		vn birth-28.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	bear	past · passive		daughters		unto men = man	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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

וַֽיְהִי֙ כִּֽי־הֵחֵ֣ל הָֽאָדָ֔ם לָרֹ֖ב עַל־פְּנֵ֣י הָֽאֲדָמָ֑ה וּבָנ֖וֹת יֻלְּד֥וּ לָהֶֽם׃

Genesis 6:1: 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:149 of Mova's parse database.

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