Genesis 11:4 · JPS 1917
And they said: 'Come, let us build us a city, and a tower, with its top in heaven, and let us make us a name; lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.'
Who acts: language, us · What happens: say, come, let, build, make, scatter · To what, where: us, city, name, we, face · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Genesis 11:4 · 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 (language, us), 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 said | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 Come | punct |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 Come | punct |
| 6 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 let | punct |
| 8 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 Come | conj |
| 9 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 let | obj |
| 10 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 let | xcomp |
| 11 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 build | iobj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 city | det |
| 13 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 build | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 tower | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 tower | cc |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 tower | det |
| 17 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 city | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 top | punct |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 top | case |
| 20 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 top | nmod:poss |
| 21 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 city | nmod |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 heaven | case |
| 23 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 top | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 let | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 let | cc |
| 26 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 Come | conj |
| 27 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 let | obj |
| 28 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 let | xcomp |
| 29 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 make | iobj |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 name | det |
| 31 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 make | obj |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 scattered | punct |
| 33 | lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 36 scattered | mark |
| 34 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 scattered | nsubj:pass |
| 35 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 36 scattered | aux:pass |
| 36 | scattered | scatter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 let | advcl |
| 37 | abroad | abroad | ADV | _ | 36 scattered | advmod |
| 38 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 40 face | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 face | det |
| 40 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 scattered | obl |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 earth | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 earth | det |
| 43 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 earth | amod |
| 44 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 face | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 46 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- suggest
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | language | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | come | infinitive | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | let | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | build | infinitive | us not said here | a city and a tower | us | with tower's top in heaven | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset we=Beneficiary city=Product | ||
| 5 | let | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | make | infinitive | us not said here | a name | us | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset we=Beneficiary name=Product | |||
| 7 | scatter | infinitive · passive | we | the face of the whole earth | abroad property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme upon face=Destination |
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
וַיֹּאמְר֞וּ הָ֣בָה ׀ נִבְנֶה־לָּ֣נוּ עִ֗יר וּמִגְדָּל֙ וְרֹאשׁ֣וֹ בַשָּׁמַ֔יִם וְנַֽעֲשֶׂה־לָּ֖נוּ שֵׁ֑ם פֶּן־נָפ֖וּץ עַל־פְּנֵ֥י כָל־הָאָֽרֶץ׃
Genesis 11:4: 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:282 of Mova's parse database.
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