Genesis 11:9 · JPS 1917
Therefore was the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth; and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
Who acts: LORD · What happens: call, confound, scatter, name · To what, where: name, language, face · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Genesis 11:9 · 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), 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 | Therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 7 called | advmod |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 called | aux:pass |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 name | det |
| 4 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 called | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 name | nmod |
| 7 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | Babel | Babel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 called | xcomp |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 confound | punct |
| 10 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 15 confound | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 LORD | det |
| 12 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 confound | nsubj |
| 13 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 confound | aux |
| 14 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 confound | advmod |
| 15 | confound | confound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 called | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 language | det |
| 17 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 confound | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 earth | case |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 earth | det:predet |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 earth | det |
| 21 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 language | nmod |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 scatter | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 scatter | cc |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 thence | case |
| 25 | thence | thence | ADV | _ | 29 scatter | obl |
| 26 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 scatter | aux |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 LORD | det |
| 28 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 scatter | nsubj |
| 29 | scatter | scatter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 confound | conj |
| 30 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 scatter | obj |
| 31 | abroad | abroad | ADV | _ | 29 scatter | advmod |
| 32 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 34 face | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 face | det |
| 34 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 scatter | obl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 earth | case |
| 36 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 38 earth | det:predet |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 earth | det |
| 38 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 face | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 called | 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 | call | past · passive | the name of face | therefore property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | confound | past · do-support | the LORD | the language of all earth | there | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus language=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | scatter | past · do-support | the LORD | language | the face of all earth | abroad property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme upon face=Destination | ||
| 4 | name | face | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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
עַל־כֵּ֞ן קָרָ֤א שְׁמָהּ֙ בָּבֶ֔ל כִּי־שָׁ֛ם בָּלַ֥ל יְהוָ֖ה שְׂפַ֣ת כָּל־הָאָ֑רֶץ וּמִשָּׁם֙ הֱפִיצָ֣ם יְהוָ֔ה עַל־פְּנֵ֖י כָּל־הָאָֽרֶץ׃פ
Genesis 11:9: 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:287 of Mova's parse database.
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