Genesis 49:17 · JPS 1917

Dan shall be a serpent in the way, a horned snake in the path, that biteth the horse's heels, so that his rider falleth backward.

Who acts: Dan, horned snake, rider · What happens: be, bite, fall · To what, where: serpent, way, heels

This is Genesis 49:17 · 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 (Dan, horned snake, rider), 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	Dan	Dan	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 serpent	nsubj
2	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 serpent	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 serpent	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 serpent	det
5	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 way	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 way	det
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 serpent	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 snake	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 snake	det
11	horned	horned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 snake	amod
12	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 serpent	appos
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 path	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 path	det
15	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 snake	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 biteth	punct
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 biteth	nsubj
18	biteth	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 snake	acl:relcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 horse	det
20	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 heels	nmod:poss
21	's	's	PART	_	20 horse	case
22	heels	heel	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 biteth	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 falleth	punct
24	so	so	SCONJ	_	28 falleth	mark
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 so	fixed
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 rider	nmod:poss
27	rider	rider	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 falleth	nsubj
28	falleth	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 biteth	advcl
29	backward	backward	ADV	_	28 falleth	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 serpent	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	is a	shall	Dan	a serpent	the way		tree rules
2	bite	present	a horned snake in the path	the horse's heels			vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heel=Patient
3	fall	present	Dan's rider			backward property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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

יְהִי־דָן֙ נָחָ֣שׁ עֲלֵי־דֶ֔רֶךְ שְׁפִיפֹ֖ן עֲלֵי־אֹ֑רַח הַנֹּשֵׁךְ֙ עִקְּבֵי־ס֔וּס וַיִּפֹּ֥ל רֹכְב֖וֹ אָחֽוֹר׃

Genesis 49:17: 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:1616 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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