Genesis 11:5 · JPS 1917
And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
Who acts: LORD, children · What happens: come down, see, build · To what, where: city
This is Genesis 11:5 · 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, children), 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 came | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 LORD | det |
| 3 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 see | mark |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 came | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 city | det |
| 9 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 see | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 tower | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 tower | det |
| 12 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 city | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 builded | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 builded | obj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 children | det |
| 16 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 builded | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 men | case |
| 18 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 children | nmod |
| 19 | builded | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 city | acl:relcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come down | past | the LORD | down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | the LORD not said here | the city and the tower | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer city=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | build | past | the children of men | the city and the tower | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Product |
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
וַיֵּ֣רֶד יְהוָ֔ה לִרְאֹ֥ת אֶת־הָעִ֖יר וְאֶת־הַמִּגְדָּ֑ל אֲשֶׁ֥ר בָּנ֖וּ בְּנֵ֥י הָאָדָֽם׃
Genesis 11:5: 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:283 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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