Genesis 11:8 · JPS 1917
So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth; and they left off to build the city.
Who acts: LORD, language · What happens: scatter, leave off, build · To what, where: language, face, city
This is Genesis 11:8 · 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, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 scattered | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 LORD | det |
| 3 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 scattered | nsubj |
| 4 | scattered | scatter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 scattered | obj |
| 6 | abroad | abroad | ADV | _ | 4 scattered | advmod |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 thence | case |
| 8 | thence | thence | ADV | _ | 4 scattered | advmod |
| 9 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 11 face | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 face | det |
| 11 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 scattered | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 earth | case |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 earth | det:predet |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 earth | det |
| 15 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 face | nmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 left | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 left | cc |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 left | nsubj |
| 19 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 scattered | conj |
| 20 | off | off | ADP | _ | 19 left | compound:prt |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 build | mark |
| 22 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 left | xcomp |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 city | det |
| 24 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 build | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 scattered | 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 | scatter | past | the LORD | language | the face of all earth | abroad, thence property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme upon face=Destination | ||
| 2 | leave off | past | language | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | build | to-infinitive | language not said here | the city | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset city=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
וַיָּ֨פֶץ יְהוָ֥ה אֹתָ֛ם מִשָּׁ֖ם עַל־פְּנֵ֣י כָל־הָאָ֑רֶץ וַֽיַּחְדְּל֖וּ לִבְנֹ֥ת הָעִֽיר׃
Genesis 11:8: 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:286 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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