Genesis 15:2 · JPS 1917
And Abram said: 'O Lord GOD, what wilt Thou give me, seeing I go hence childless, and he that shall be possessor of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?'
Who acts: Abram, Thou, I · What happens: say, give, see, go, be · To what, where: me, possessor, Eliezer · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Genesis 15:2 · 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, Thou, 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 | _ | 3 said | cc |
| 2 | Abram | Abram | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 give | punct |
| 6 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 8 GOD | discourse |
| 7 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 GOD | compound |
| 8 | GOD | GOD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 give | vocative |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 give | punct |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 give | obj |
| 11 | wilt | will | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 13 give | aux |
| 12 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 give | nsubj |
| 13 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 give | iobj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 seeing | punct |
| 16 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 give | advcl |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 go | nsubj |
| 18 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 seeing | ccomp |
| 19 | hence | hence | ADV | _ | 18 go | advmod |
| 20 | childless | childless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 go | xcomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 Eliezer | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 Eliezer | cc |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 Eliezer | nsubj |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 possessor | nsubj |
| 25 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 possessor | aux |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 possessor | cop |
| 27 | possessor | possessor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 he | acl:relcl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 house | case |
| 29 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 house | nmod:poss |
| 30 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 possessor | nmod |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 Eliezer | cop |
| 32 | Eliezer | Eliezer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | conj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 Damascus | case |
| 34 | Damascus | Damascus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Eliezer | nmod |
| 35 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 give | punct |
| 36 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 give | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- ask
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed indirect=0
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Abram | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | give | future | Thou | me | Lord GOD vocative | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient what=Theme | |||
| 3 | see | gerund | Thou not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | go | present | I | childless, hence property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is a | shall | possessor | of my house | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | is a | present | Abram | Eliezer | 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
וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אַבְרָ֗ם אֲדֹנָ֤י יֱהוִה֙ מַה־תִּתֶּן־לִ֔י וְאָנֹכִ֖י הוֹלֵ֣ךְ עֲרִירִ֑י וּבֶן־מֶ֣שֶׁק בֵּיתִ֔י ה֖וּא דַּמֶּ֥שֶׂק אֱלִיעֶֽזֶר׃
Genesis 15:2: 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:378 of Mova's parse database.
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