Genesis 8:21 · JPS 1917
And the LORD smelled the sweet savour; and the LORD said in His heart: 'I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.
Who acts: LORD, I, imagination, thing · What happens: smell, say, not curse, be, smite, live · To what, where: sweet savour, heart, ground, youth, thing · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Genesis 8:21 · 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 (LORD, I, imagination, thing), 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 | _ | 4 smelled | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 LORD | det |
| 3 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 smelled | nsubj |
| 4 | smelled | smell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 savour | det |
| 6 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 savour | amod |
| 7 | savour | savour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 smelled | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 LORD | det |
| 11 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 smelled | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 heart | case |
| 14 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 heart | nmod:poss |
| 15 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obl |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 curse | punct |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 curse | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 curse | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 curse | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 curse | advmod |
| 21 | again | again | ADV | _ | 22 curse | advmod |
| 22 | curse | curse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 ground | det |
| 24 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 curse | obj |
| 25 | any | any | ADV | _ | 26 more | advmod |
| 26 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 22 curse | advmod |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 sake | case |
| 28 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 sake | nmod:poss |
| 29 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 28 man | case |
| 30 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 curse | obl |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 40 evil | punct |
| 32 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 40 evil | mark |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 imagination | det |
| 34 | imagination | imagination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 evil | nsubj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 heart | case |
| 36 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 heart | nmod:poss |
| 37 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 36 man | case |
| 38 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 imagination | nmod |
| 39 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 evil | cop |
| 40 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 said | advcl |
| 41 | from | from | ADP | _ | 43 youth | case |
| 42 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 youth | nmod:poss |
| 43 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 evil | obl |
| 44 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 49 smite | punct |
| 45 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 49 smite | cc |
| 46 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 49 smite | aux |
| 47 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 49 smite | nsubj |
| 48 | again | again | ADV | _ | 49 smite | advmod |
| 49 | smite | smite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | conj |
| 50 | any | any | ADV | _ | 51 more | advmod |
| 51 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 49 smite | advmod |
| 52 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 53 thing | det |
| 53 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 smite | obj |
| 54 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 53 thing | acl |
| 55 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 59 done | punct |
| 56 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 59 done | mark |
| 57 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 59 done | nsubj |
| 58 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 59 done | aux |
| 59 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 49 smite | advcl |
| 60 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 smelled | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- promise
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smell | past | the LORD | the sweet savour | vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer savour=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the LORD | LORD's heart | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | not curse | future | I | the ground | again | for man's sake | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent ground=Theme for sake=Attribute | ||
| 4 | is | present | the imagination of man's heart | LORD's youth | evil property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | smite | future | I | every thing | again | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus thing=Experiencer | |||
| 6 | live | gerund | every thing not said here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | do | present · perfect | I | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | imagine | man's heart | nom imagination «cognition transitive»: of=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
וַיָּ֣רַח יְהוָה֮ אֶת־רֵ֣יחַ הַנִּיחֹחַ֒ וַיֹּ֨אמֶר יְהוָ֜ה אֶל־לִבּ֗וֹ לֹֽא־אֹ֠סִף לְקַלֵּ֨ל ע֤וֹד אֶת־הָֽאֲדָמָה֙ בַּעֲב֣וּר הָֽאָדָ֔ם כִּ֠י יֵ֣צֶר לֵ֧ב הָאָדָ֛ם רַ֖ע מִנְּעֻרָ֑יו וְלֹֽא־אֹסִ֥ף ע֛וֹד לְהַכּ֥וֹת אֶת־כָּל־חַ֖י כַּֽאֲשֶׁ֥ר עָשִֽׂיתִי׃
Genesis 8:21: 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:216 of Mova's parse database.
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