Genesis 49:27 · JPS 1917

Benjamin is a wolf that raveneth; in the morning he devoureth the prey, and at even he divideth the spoil.'

Who acts: Benjamin, wolf · What happens: be, raven, devour, divide · To what, where: wolf, prey, spoil, even

This is Genesis 49:27 · 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 (Benjamin, wolf), 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	Benjamin	Benjamin	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 wolf	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wolf	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 wolf	det
4	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 raveneth	nsubj
6	raveneth	raven	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wolf	acl:relcl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 devoureth	punct
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 morning	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 morning	det
10	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 devoureth	obl
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 devoureth	nsubj
12	devoureth	devour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wolf	parataxis
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 prey	det
14	prey	prey	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 devoureth	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 divideth	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 divideth	cc
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 even	case
18	even	even	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 divideth	obl
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 divideth	nsubj
20	divideth	divide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 devoureth	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 spoil	det
22	spoil	spoil	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 divideth	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 wolf	punct
24	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 wolf	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	is a	present	Benjamin	a wolf			tree rules
2	raven	present	a wolf				tree rules
3	devour	present	Benjamin	the prey		morning	vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prey=Patient
4	divide	present	Benjamin	the spoil	even		vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spoil=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

בִּנְיָמִין֙ זְאֵ֣ב יִטְרָ֔ף בַּבֹּ֖קֶר יֹ֣אכַל עַ֑ד וְלָעֶ֖רֶב יְחַלֵּ֥ק שָׁלָֽל׃

Genesis 49:27: 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:1626 of Mova's parse database.

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