Genesis 15:4 · JPS 1917
And, behold, the word of the LORD came unto him, saying: 'This man shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir.'
Who acts: word, man, Abram · What happens: come, say, not be, be, word · To what, where: heir, own bowels, LORD · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Genesis 15:4 · 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 (word, man, 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 | _ | 10 came | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 behold | punct |
| 3 | behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 10 came | discourse |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 behold | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 word | det |
| 6 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 LORD | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 LORD | det |
| 9 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 word | nmod |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 came | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 saying | punct |
| 14 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 came | advcl |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 heir | punct |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 heir | punct |
| 17 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 man | det |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 heir | nsubj |
| 19 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 heir | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 heir | advmod |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 heir | cop |
| 22 | thine | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 23 heir | nmod:poss |
| 23 | heir | heir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 saying | ccomp |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 heir | punct |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 39 heir | cc |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 heir | nsubj |
| 27 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 come | nsubj |
| 28 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 come | aux |
| 29 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 he | acl:relcl |
| 30 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 29 come | advmod |
| 31 | out | out | ADP | _ | 35 bowels | case |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 bowels | case |
| 33 | thine | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 35 bowels | nmod:poss |
| 34 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 bowels | amod |
| 35 | bowels | bowel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 come | obl |
| 36 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 heir | aux |
| 37 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 39 heir | cop |
| 38 | thine | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 39 heir | nmod:poss |
| 39 | heir | heir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 heir | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 came | punct |
| 41 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 came | punct |
Pragmatics
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the word of the LORD | unto Abram | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | the word of the LORD not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not is a | shall | this man | thine heir but thine heir | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | come | shall | thine own bowels | forth property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme out bowel=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | is a | shall | Abram | thine heir | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | word | the LORD | nom word «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
וְהִנֵּ֨ה דְבַר־יְהוָ֤ה אֵלָיו֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר לֹ֥א יִֽירָשְׁךָ֖ זֶ֑ה כִּי־אִם֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר יֵצֵ֣א מִמֵּעֶ֔יךָ ה֖וּא יִֽירָשֶֽׁךָ׃
Genesis 15:4: 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:380 of Mova's parse database.
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