Genesis 8:20 · JPS 1917

And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt-offerings on the altar.

Who acts: Noah · What happens: build, take, offer, burnt · To what, where: altar, burnt offerings

This is Genesis 8:20 · 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 builded	cc
2	Noah	Noah	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 builded	nsubj
3	builded	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 altar	det
5	altar	altar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 builded	obj
6	unto	unto	ADP	_	8 LORD	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 LORD	det
8	LORD	LORD	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 builded	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 took	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 took	cc
11	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 builded	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 beast	case
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	15 beast	det
14	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 beast	amod
15	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 took	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 fowl	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 fowl	cc
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 fowl	case
19	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	21 fowl	det
20	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 fowl	amod
21	fowl	fowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 beast	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 offered	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 offered	cc
24	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 took	conj
25	burnt	burnt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 offerings	amod
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 offerings	punct
27	offerings	offering	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 offered	obj
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 altar	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 altar	det
30	altar	altar	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 offered	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 builded	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	build	past	Noah	a altar		unto the LORD	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent altar=Product
2	take	past	Noah not said here			of every clean beast and every clean fowl	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent of beast=Initial_Location
3	offer	past	Noah not said here	burnt offerings	the altar		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent offering=Theme
4	burnt	participle					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

וַיִּ֥בֶן נֹ֛חַ מִזְבֵּ֖חַ לַֽיהוָ֑ה וַיִּקַּ֞ח מִכֹּ֣ל ׀ הַבְּהֵמָ֣ה הַטְּהוֹרָ֗ה וּמִכֹּל֙ הָע֣וֹף הַטָּהֹ֔ר וַיַּ֥עַל עֹלֹ֖ת בַּמִּזְבֵּֽחַ׃

Genesis 8:20: 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:215 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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.215/