Genesis 49:3 · JPS 1917

Reuben, thou art my first-born, my might, and the first-fruits of my strength; the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power.

What happens: be · To what, where: first born

This is Genesis 49:3 · 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: 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	Reuben	Reuben	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 art	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Reuben	punct
3	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	4 art	nsubj
4	art	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 born	cop
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 born	nmod:poss
6	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 born	amod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 first	punct
8	born	first-born	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 might	punct
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 might	nmod:poss
11	might	might	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 born	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 fruits	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 fruits	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 fruits	det
15	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	17 fruits	amod
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 first	punct
17	fruits	fruit	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 born	conj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 strength	case
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 strength	nmod:poss
20	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fruits	nmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 excellency	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 excellency	det
23	excellency	excellency	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 born	appos
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 dignity	case
25	dignity	dignity	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 excellency	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 excellency	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 excellency	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 excellency	det
29	excellency	excellency	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 excellency	conj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 power	case
31	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 excellency	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 born	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert, voice=character

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		my first born and my might and the first fruits of my strength					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

רְאוּבֵן֙ בְּכֹ֣רִי אַ֔תָּה כֹּחִ֖י וְרֵאשִׁ֣ית אוֹנִ֑י יֶ֥תֶר שְׂאֵ֖ת וְיֶ֥תֶר עָֽז׃

Genesis 49:3: 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:1601 of Mova's parse database.

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