Genesis 8:8 · JPS 1917
And he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground.
Who acts: Noah · What happens: send, see, abate · To what, where: dove, waters, face
This is Genesis 8:8 · 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 (Noah), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 sent | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 3 sent | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 dove | det |
| 6 | dove | dove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sent | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 see | punct |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 see | mark |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sent | advcl |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 abated | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 waters | det |
| 14 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 abated | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 abated | aux:pass |
| 16 | abated | abate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 see | ccomp |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 face | case |
| 18 | off | off | ADP | _ | 20 face | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 face | det |
| 20 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 abated | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 ground | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 ground | det |
| 23 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 face | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | Noah | a dove | from Ararat; forth property | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent dove=Theme from he=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | Noah not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | abate a condition, not said to happen | past · passive | the waters | the face of the ground | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
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
וַיְשַׁלַּ֥ח אֶת־הַיּוֹנָ֖ה מֵאִתּ֑וֹ לִרְאוֹת֙ הֲקַ֣לּוּ הַמַּ֔יִם מֵעַ֖ל פְּנֵ֥י הָֽאֲדָמָֽה׃
Genesis 8:8: 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:203 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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