Genesis 11:2 · JPS 1917

And it came to pass, as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.

Who acts: earth, language · What happens: come, pass, journey, find, dwell · To what, where: plain, land

This is Genesis 11:2 · 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 (earth, language), 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 came	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 pass	mark
5	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 came	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 journeyed	punct
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 journeyed	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 journeyed	nsubj
9	journeyed	journey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 found	advcl
10	east	east	ADV	_	9 journeyed	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 found	punct
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 found	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 found	nsubj
14	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	csubj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 plain	det
16	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 found	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 land	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 land	det
19	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 plain	nmod
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 Shinar	case
21	Shinar	Shinar	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 land	nmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 dwelt	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 dwelt	cc
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 dwelt	nsubj
25	dwelt	dwell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
26	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 dwelt	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	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	come	past	earth				tree rules
2	pass	to-infinitive	earth not said here				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	journey	past	language			east property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	find	past	language	a plain	the land of Shinar		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plain=Topic
5	dwell	past	language		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

וַֽיְהִ֖י בְּנָסְעָ֣ם מִקֶּ֑דֶם וַֽיִּמְצְא֥וּ בִקְעָ֛ה בְּאֶ֥רֶץ שִׁנְעָ֖ר וַיֵּ֥שְׁבוּ שָֽׁם׃

Genesis 11:2: 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:280 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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