Genesis 14:15 · JPS 1917
And he divided himself against them by night, he and his servants, and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus.
Who acts: brother, Hobah · What happens: divide, smote, pursue, be · To what, where: brother, men, left hand
This is Genesis 14:15 · 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 (brother, Hobah), 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 | _ | 3 divided | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 divided | nsubj |
| 3 | divided | divide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 divided | obj |
| 5 | against | against | ADP | _ | 6 them | case |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 divided | obl |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 night | case |
| 8 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 divided | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 he | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 divided | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 servants | cc |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 servants | nmod:poss |
| 13 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 he | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 smote | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 smote | cc |
| 16 | smote | smote | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 divided | conj |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 smote | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 pursued | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 pursued | cc |
| 20 | pursued | pursue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 divided | conj |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 pursued | obj |
| 22 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 23 Hobah | case |
| 23 | Hobah | Hobah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 pursued | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 hand | punct |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 hand | nsubj |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 hand | cop |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 hand | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 hand | det |
| 29 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 hand | amod |
| 30 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Hobah | acl:relcl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 Damascus | case |
| 32 | Damascus | Damascus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 hand | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 divided | punct |
Pragmatics
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | divide | past | brother | brother | night | against men = man; Abram obl | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | ||
| 2 | smote | past | brother not said here | men = man | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | pursue | past | brother not said here | men = man | unto Hobah | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 4 | is | present | Hobah | the left hand | of Damascus | tree rules |
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
וַיֵּחָלֵ֨ק עֲלֵיהֶ֧ם ׀ לַ֛יְלָה ה֥וּא וַעֲבָדָ֖יו וַיַּכֵּ֑ם וַֽיִּרְדְּפֵם֙ עַד־חוֹבָ֔ה אֲשֶׁ֥ר מִשְּׂמֹ֖אל לְדַמָּֽשֶׂק׃
Genesis 14:15: 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:367 of Mova's parse database.
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