Genesis 13:16 · JPS 1917
And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth; so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.
Who acts: I, man · What happens: make, number · To what, where: seed, dust
This is Genesis 13:16 · 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 (I, man), 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 make | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 make | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 make | aux |
| 4 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 seed | nmod:poss |
| 6 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 make | obj |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 dust | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 dust | det |
| 9 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 seed | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 earth | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 earth | det |
| 12 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dust | nmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 numbered | punct |
| 14 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 20 number | mark |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 so | fixed |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 number | mark |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 man | det |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 number | nsubj |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 number | aux |
| 20 | number | number | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 numbered | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 dust | det |
| 22 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 number | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 earth | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 earth | det |
| 25 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 dust | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 number | punct |
| 27 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 33 numbered | advmod |
| 28 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 numbered | aux |
| 29 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 30 seed | nmod:poss |
| 30 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 numbered | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | also | also | ADV | _ | 33 numbered | advmod |
| 32 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 33 numbered | aux:pass |
| 33 | numbered | number | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 make | parataxis |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- promise
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | future | I | thy seed | as the dust of the earth | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Product | |||
| 2 | number | can | a man | the dust of the earth | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dust=Theme | ||||
| 3 | number | shall · passive | thy seed | then | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: subject=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
וְשַׂמְתִּ֥י אֶֽת־זַרְעֲךָ֖ כַּעֲפַ֣ר הָאָ֑רֶץ אֲשֶׁ֣ר ׀ אִם־יוּכַ֣ל אִ֗ישׁ לִמְנוֹת֙ אֶת־עֲפַ֣ר הָאָ֔רֶץ גַּֽם־זַרְעֲךָ֖ יִמָּנֶֽה׃
Genesis 13:16: 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:350 of Mova's parse database.
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