Genesis 15:9 · JPS 1917
And He said unto him: 'Take Me a heifer of three years old, and a she-goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtle-dove, and a young pigeon.'
Who acts: Abram · What happens: say, take · To what, where: heifer, Me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Genesis 15:9 · 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), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | obl |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 Take | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 Take | punct |
| 8 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | ccomp |
| 9 | Me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 Take | iobj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 heifer | det |
| 11 | heifer | heifer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Take | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 years | case |
| 13 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 years | nummod |
| 14 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 old | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 heifer | amod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 goat | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 goat | cc |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 goat | det |
| 19 | she | she | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 goat | amod |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 she | punct |
| 21 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Take | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 years | case |
| 23 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 years | nummod |
| 24 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 old | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 goat | amod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 ram | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 ram | cc |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 ram | det |
| 29 | ram | ram | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Take | conj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 years | case |
| 31 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 years | nummod |
| 32 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 old | obl:unmarked |
| 33 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 ram | amod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 dove | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 dove | cc |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 dove | det |
| 37 | turtle | turtle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 dove | compound |
| 38 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 turtle | punct |
| 39 | dove | dove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 ram | conj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 pigeon | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 pigeon | cc |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 pigeon | det |
| 43 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 pigeon | amod |
| 44 | pigeon | pigeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 ram | conj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 46 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Abram | unto GOD | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | take | infinitive | a heifer | Me | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Theme heifer=Destination |
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 אֵלָ֗יו קְחָ֥ה לִי֙ עֶגְלָ֣ה מְשֻׁלֶּ֔שֶׁת וְעֵ֥ז מְשֻׁלֶּ֖שֶׁת וְאַ֣יִל מְשֻׁלָּ֑שׁ וְתֹ֖ר וְגוֹזָֽל׃
Genesis 15:9: 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:385 of Mova's parse database.
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