Genesis 1:14 · JPS 1917

And God said: 'Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years;

Who acts: God, lights, heaven · What happens: say, let, be, divide · To what, where: heaven · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Genesis 1:14 · 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 (God, lights, heaven), 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 said	cc
2	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 Let	punct
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 Let	punct
6	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 be	expl
8	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 Let	xcomp
9	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 be	nsubj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 firmament	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 firmament	det
12	firmament	firmament	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lights	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 heaven	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 heaven	det
15	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 firmament	nmod
16	to	to	PART	_	17 divide	mark
17	divide	divide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 be	advcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 day	det
19	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 divide	obj
20	from	from	ADP	_	22 night	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 night	det
22	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 divide	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 let	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 let	cc
25	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	conj
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 let	obj
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 signs	cop
28	for	for	ADP	_	29 signs	case
29	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 let	xcomp
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 seasons	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 seasons	cc
32	for	for	ADP	_	33 seasons	case
33	seasons	season	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 signs	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 days	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 days	cc
36	for	for	ADP	_	37 days	case
37	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 signs	conj
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 years	cc
39	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 days	conj
40	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	God					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	let	infinitive						tree rules
3	be	infinitive	lights in the firmament of the heaven		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	divide	to-infinitive	lights in the firmament of the heaven not said here			day; night		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	let	infinitive	God not said here	heaven				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
6	is	infinitive	heaven not said here				for signs and seasons and days and years	tree rules

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

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֱלֹהִ֗ים יְהִ֤י מְאֹרֹת֙ בִּרְקִ֣יעַ הַשָּׁמַ֔יִם לְהַבְדִּ֕יל בֵּ֥ין הַיּ֖וֹם וּבֵ֣ין הַלָּ֑יְלָה וְהָי֤וּ לְאֹתֹת֙ וּלְמ֣וֹעֲדִ֔ים וּלְיָמִ֖ים וְשָׁנִֽים׃

Genesis 1:14: 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:15 of Mova's parse database.

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