Genesis 15:11 · JPS 1917

And the birds of prey came down upon the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.

Who acts: birds, Abram · What happens: come down, drive away · To what, where: carcasses, birds

This is Genesis 15:11 · 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 (birds, 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	_	6 came	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 birds	det
3	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 came	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 prey	case
5	prey	prey	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 birds	nmod
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	down	down	ADV	_	6 came	advmod
8	upon	upon	ADP	_	10 carcasses	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 carcasses	det
10	carcasses	carcass	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 came	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 drove	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 drove	cc
13	Abram	Abram	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 drove	nsubj
14	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 drove	obj
16	away	away	ADV	_	14 drove	advmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come down	past	the birds of prey			the carcasses		down property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon carcass=Location
2	drive away	past	Abram	birds = bird				away property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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

וַיֵּ֥רֶד הָעַ֖יִט עַל־הַפְּגָרִ֑ים וַיַּשֵּׁ֥ב אֹתָ֖ם אַבְרָֽם׃

Genesis 15:11: 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:387 of Mova's parse database.

The tree and the speech act come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

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