Genesis 6:4 · JPS 1917

The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bore children to them; the same were the mighty men that were of old, the men of renown.

Who acts: Nephilim, sons, same, mighty men · What happens: be, come in, bear · To what, where: earth, children, men, mighty men

This is Genesis 6:4 · 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 (Nephilim, sons, same, mighty 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Nephilim	det
2	Nephilim	Nephilim	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 earth	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 earth	cop
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 earth	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 earth	det
6	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 days	case
8	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	9 days	det
9	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 earth	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 that	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 that	cc
12	also	also	ADV	_	14 that	advmod
13	after	after	ADP	_	14 that	case
14	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 earth	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 came	punct
16	when	when	SCONJ	_	21 came	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 sons	det
18	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 came	nsubj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 God	case
20	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 sons	nmod
21	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 earth	advcl
22	in	in	ADV	_	21 came	advmod
23	unto	unto	ADP	_	25 daughters	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 daughters	det
25	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 came	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 men	case
27	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 daughters	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 bore	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 bore	cc
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 bore	nsubj
31	bore	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 came	conj
32	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 bore	obj
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 them	case
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 bore	obl
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 men	punct
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 same	det
37	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 men	nsubj
38	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 men	cop
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 men	det
40	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 men	amod
41	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 earth	parataxis
42	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	45 old	nsubj
43	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 old	cop
44	of	of	ADP	_	45 old	case
45	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 men	acl:relcl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 men	punct
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 men	det
48	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 men	appos
49	of	of	ADP	_	50 renown	case
50	renown	renown	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 men	nmod
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 earth	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Nephilim			the earth	after that; day		tree rules
2	come in	past	the sons of God					unto the daughters of men	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	bear	past	sons = son	children	men = man				vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient
4	is a	past	the same	the mighty men					tree rules
5	is	past	the mighty men					old property	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

הַנְּפִלִ֞ים הָי֣וּ בָאָרֶץ֮ בַּיָּמִ֣ים הָהֵם֒ וְגַ֣ם אַֽחֲרֵי־כֵ֗ן אֲשֶׁ֨ר יָבֹ֜אוּ בְּנֵ֤י הָֽאֱלֹהִים֙ אֶל־בְּנ֣וֹת הָֽאָדָ֔ם וְיָלְד֖וּ לָהֶ֑ם הֵ֧מָּה הַגִּבֹּרִ֛ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר מֵעוֹלָ֖ם אַנְשֵׁ֥י הַשֵּֽׁם׃פ

Genesis 6:4: 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:152 of Mova's parse database.

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