Genesis 9:27 · JPS 1917
God enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and let Canaan be their servant.
Who acts: God, Japheth, Canaan · What happens: enlarge, dwell, let, be · To what, where: Japheth, tents, Canaan, servant
This is Genesis 9:27 · 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 (God, Japheth, Canaan), 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 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 enlarge | nsubj |
| 2 | enlarge | enlarge | VERB | Mood=Sub VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Japheth | Japheth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 enlarge | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 dwell | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 dwell | cc |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 dwell | nsubj |
| 7 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 dwell | aux |
| 8 | dwell | dwell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 enlarge | conj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 tents | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 tents | det |
| 11 | tents | tent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 dwell | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Shem | case |
| 13 | Shem | Shem | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 tents | nmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 let | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 let | cc |
| 16 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 enlarge | conj |
| 17 | Canaan | Canaan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 let | obj |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 servant | cop |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 servant | nmod:poss |
| 20 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 let | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 enlarge | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enlarge | infinitive | God | Japheth | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent japheth=Patient | ||||
| 2 | dwell | shall | Japheth | the tents of Shem | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tent=Location | ||||
| 3 | let | infinitive | God not said here | Canaan | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent canaan=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | infinitive | Canaan not said here | Shem's servant | 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
יַ֤פְתְּ אֱלֹהִים֙ לְיֶ֔פֶת וְיִשְׁכֹּ֖ן בְּאָֽהֳלֵי־שֵׁ֑ם וִיהִ֥י כְנַ֖עַן עֶ֥בֶד לָֽמוֹ׃
Genesis 9:27: 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:244 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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