Genesis 15:13 · JPS 1917

And He said unto Abram: 'Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;

Who acts: Abram, seed, land, birds · What happens: say, know, be, not be, serve, afflict · To what, where: stranger, land, birds, carcasses · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Genesis 15:13 · 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, seed, land, birds), 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 Abram	case
5	Abram	Abram	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 said	obl
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 Know	punct
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 Know	punct
8	Know	know	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 said	ccomp
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 surety	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 surety	det
11	surety	surety	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Know	obl
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 stranger	mark
13	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	14 seed	nmod:poss
14	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 stranger	nsubj
15	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 stranger	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 stranger	cop
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 stranger	det
18	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Know	ccomp
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 land	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 land	det
21	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 stranger	nmod
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 theirs	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 theirs	cop
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 theirs	advmod
25	theirs	theirs	PRON	Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 land	acl:relcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 serve	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 serve	cc
28	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 serve	aux
29	serve	serve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 stranger	conj
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 serve	obj
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 afflict	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 afflict	cc
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 afflict	nsubj
34	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 afflict	aux
35	afflict	afflict	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 stranger	conj
36	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 afflict	obj
37	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 hundred	compound
38	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	39 years	nummod
39	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 afflict	obl:unmarked
40	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: warn
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=warn, polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Abram				unto Abram	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	know	infinitive					of a surety	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of surety=Stimulus
3	is a	shall	thy seed	a stranger	a land			tree rules
4	not is a	present	a land	birds = bird				tree rules
5	serve	shall	thy seed not said here	birds = bird				vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Attribute
6	afflict	shall	birds = bird	carcasses = carcass		year		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer

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 לְאַבְרָ֗ם יָדֹ֨עַ תֵּדַ֜ע כִּי־גֵ֣ר ׀ יִהְיֶ֣ה זַרְעֲךָ֗ בְּאֶ֙רֶץ֙ לֹ֣א לָהֶ֔ם וַעֲבָד֖וּם וְעִנּ֣וּ אֹתָ֑ם אַרְבַּ֥ע מֵא֖וֹת שָׁנָֽה׃

Genesis 15:13: 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:389 of Mova's parse database.

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