Genesis 1:21 · JPS 1917
And God created the great sea-monsters, and every living creature that creepeth, wherewith the waters swarmed, after its kind, and every winged fowl after its kind; and God saw that it was good.
Who acts: God, living creature, waters, fowl · What happens: create, creep, swarm, see, be · To what, where: great sea monsters · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Genesis 1:21 · 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 (God, living creature, waters, fowl), 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 created | cc |
| 2 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 created | nsubj |
| 3 | created | create | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 monsters | det |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 monsters | amod |
| 6 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 monsters | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 sea | punct |
| 8 | monsters | monster | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 created | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 creature | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 creature | cc |
| 11 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 creature | det |
| 12 | living | living | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 creature | amod |
| 13 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 monsters | conj |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 creepeth | nsubj |
| 15 | creepeth | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 creature | acl:relcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 swarmed | punct |
| 17 | wherewith | wherewith | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 swarmed | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 waters | det |
| 19 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 swarmed | nsubj |
| 20 | swarmed | swarm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 creature | acl:relcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 kind | punct |
| 22 | after | after | ADP | _ | 24 kind | case |
| 23 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 kind | nmod:poss |
| 24 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 creature | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 fowl | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 fowl | cc |
| 27 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 fowl | det |
| 28 | winged | winged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 fowl | amod |
| 29 | fowl | fowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 monsters | conj |
| 30 | after | after | ADP | _ | 32 kind | case |
| 31 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 kind | nmod:poss |
| 32 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 fowl | nmod |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 saw | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 saw | cc |
| 35 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 saw | nsubj |
| 36 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 created | conj |
| 37 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 40 good | mark |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 good | nsubj |
| 39 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 good | cop |
| 40 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 saw | ccomp |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 created | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | create | past | God | the great sea monsters and every living creature after firmament's kind and every winged fowl after fowl's kind | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent monster=Result | ||||
| 2 | creep | present | every living creature after firmament's kind | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | swarm | past | the waters | wherewith property | vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | past | God | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is | past | fowl | good property | 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
וַיִּבְרָ֣א אֱלֹהִ֔ים אֶת־הַתַּנִּינִ֖ם הַגְּדֹלִ֑ים וְאֵ֣ת כָּל־נֶ֣פֶשׁ הַֽחַיָּ֣ה ׀ הָֽרֹמֶ֡שֶׂת אֲשֶׁר֩ שָׁרְצ֨וּ הַמַּ֜יִם לְמִֽינֵהֶ֗ם וְאֵ֨ת כָּל־ע֤וֹף כָּנָף֙ לְמִינֵ֔הוּ וַיַּ֥רְא אֱלֹהִ֖ים כִּי־טֽוֹב׃
Genesis 1:21: 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:22 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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