Genesis 6:2 · JPS 1917

that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives, whomsoever they chose.

Who acts: sons, daughters · What happens: see, be, take, choose · To what, where: daughters, wives, men, whomsoever · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Genesis 6:2 · 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 (sons, daughters), 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	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 saw	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sons	det
3	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 saw	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 God	case
5	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sons	nmod
6	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 daughters	det
8	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 saw	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 men	case
10	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 daughters	nmod
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 fair	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 fair	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 fair	cop
14	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 saw	ccomp
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 took	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 took	cc
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 took	nsubj
18	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 saw	conj
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 took	iobj
20	wives	wife	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 took	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 chose	punct
22	whomsoever	whomsoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 chose	obj
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 chose	nsubj
24	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 wives	acl:relcl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 saw	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	the sons of God	the daughters of men			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer daughter=Stimulus
2	is	past	daughters = daughter			fair property	tree rules
3	take	past	daughters = daughter	wives	men = man		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument they=Theme wife=Destination
4	choose	past	daughters = daughter	whomsoever			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whomsoever=Theme

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

וַיִּרְא֤וּ בְנֵי־הָֽאֱלֹהִים֙ אֶת־בְּנ֣וֹת הָֽאָדָ֔ם כִּ֥י טֹבֹ֖ת הֵ֑נָּה וַיִּקְח֤וּ לָהֶם֙ נָשִׁ֔ים מִכֹּ֖ל אֲשֶׁ֥ר בָּחָֽרוּ׃

Genesis 6:2: 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:150 of Mova's parse database.

The tree and the speech act come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

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