Genesis 11:29 · JPS 1917
And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram's wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.
Who acts: Abram · What happens: take, be, name · To what, where: Chaldees, name, wife
This is Genesis 11:29 · 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 (Abram), 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 | _ | 5 took | cc |
| 2 | Abram | Abram | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 took | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 Nahor | cc |
| 4 | Nahor | Nahor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Abram | conj |
| 5 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 took | obl |
| 7 | wives | wife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 took | obj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 Sarai | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 name | det |
| 10 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Sarai | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 wife | case |
| 12 | Abram | Abram | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 wife | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 Abram | case |
| 14 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 name | nmod |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 name | cop |
| 16 | Sarai | Sarai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 took | parataxis |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 name | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 name | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 name | det |
| 20 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | parataxis |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 wife | case |
| 22 | Nahor | Nahor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 wife | nmod:poss |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 22 Nahor | case |
| 24 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 name | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 Milcah | punct |
| 26 | Milcah | Milcah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 wife | appos |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 daughter | punct |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 daughter | det |
| 29 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 wife | appos |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Haran | case |
| 31 | Haran | Haran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 daughter | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 father | punct |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 father | det |
| 34 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 daughter | conj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 Milcah | case |
| 36 | Milcah | Milcah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 father | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 father | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 father | cc |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 father | det |
| 40 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 daughter | conj |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 Iscah | case |
| 42 | Iscah | Iscah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 father | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 took | punct |
Pragmatics
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Abram and Nahor | Chaldees | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument wife=Destination | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the name | of Abram's wife | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | name | Nahor's wife | 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
וַיִּקַּ֨ח אַבְרָ֧ם וְנָח֛וֹר לָהֶ֖ם נָשִׁ֑ים שֵׁ֤ם אֵֽשֶׁת־אַבְרָם֙ שָׂרָ֔י וְשֵׁ֤ם אֵֽשֶׁת־נָחוֹר֙ מִלְכָּ֔ה בַּת־הָרָ֥ן אֲבִֽי־מִלְכָּ֖ה וַֽאֲבִ֥י יִסְכָּֽה׃
Genesis 11:29: 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:309 of Mova's parse database.
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