Genesis 12:7 · JPS 1917
And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said: 'Unto thy seed will I give this land'; and he builded there an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him.
Who acts: LORD, I · What happens: appear, say, give, build · To what, where: land, altar · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Genesis 12:7 · 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, I), 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 appeared | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 LORD | det |
| 3 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 appeared | nsubj |
| 4 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 6 Abram | case |
| 6 | Abram | Abram | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 appeared | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 appeared | conj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 give | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 give | punct |
| 12 | Unto | unto | ADP | _ | 14 seed | case |
| 13 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 seed | nmod:poss |
| 14 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 give | obl |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 give | aux |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 give | nsubj |
| 17 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 land | det |
| 19 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 give | obj |
| 20 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 give | punct |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 builded | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 builded | cc |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 builded | nsubj |
| 24 | builded | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 appeared | conj |
| 25 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 builded | advmod |
| 26 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 altar | det |
| 27 | altar | altar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 builded | obj |
| 28 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 30 LORD | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 LORD | det |
| 30 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 builded | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 appeared | punct |
| 32 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 appeared | nsubj |
| 33 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 LORD | acl:relcl |
| 34 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 35 him | case |
| 35 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 appeared | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=narrate, voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | the LORD | unto Abram | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the LORD not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | give | future | I | this land | unto thy seed | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Theme | |||
| 4 | build | past | LORD | a altar | there | unto the LORD | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent altar=Product | ||
| 5 | appear | past | the LORD | unto LORD | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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
וַיֵּרָ֤א יְהוָה֙ אֶל־אַבְרָ֔ם וַיֹּ֕אמֶר לְזַ֨רְעֲךָ֔ אֶתֵּ֖ן אֶת־הָאָ֣רֶץ הַזֹּ֑את וַיִּ֤בֶן שָׁם֙ מִזְבֵּ֔חַ לַיהוָ֖ה הַנִּרְאֶ֥ה אֵלָֽיו׃
Genesis 12:7: 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:320 of Mova's parse database.
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