Genesis 15:17 · JPS 1917

And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and there was thick darkness, behold a smoking furnace, and a flaming torch that passed between these pieces.

Who acts: iniquity, sun, thick darkness, flaming torch · What happens: come, pass, go down, be · To what, where: pieces

This is Genesis 15:17 · 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 (iniquity, sun, thick darkness, flaming torch), 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 came	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 pass	mark
5	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 came	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 furnace	punct
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 furnace	mark
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 went	punct
9	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 went	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sun	det
11	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 went	nsubj
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 furnace	advcl
13	down	down	ADV	_	12 went	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 was	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 was	cc
16	there	there	PRON	_	17 was	expl
17	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 went	conj
18	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 darkness	amod
19	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 was	nsubj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 furnace	punct
21	behold	behold	INTJ	_	24 furnace	discourse
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 furnace	det
23	smoking	smoking	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 furnace	amod
24	furnace	furnace	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	ccomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 torch	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 torch	cc
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 torch	det
28	flaming	flaming	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 torch	amod
29	torch	torch	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 furnace	conj
30	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 passed	nsubj
31	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 torch	acl:relcl
32	between	between	ADP	_	34 pieces	case
33	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	34 pieces	det
34	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 passed	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	iniquity			tree rules
2	pass	to-infinitive	iniquity not said here			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	go down	past	the sun		down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	be	past	thick darkness	there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	pass	past	a flaming torch	this pieces		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme between piece=Location

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

וַיְהִ֤י הַשֶּׁ֙מֶשׁ֙ בָּ֔אָה וַעֲלָטָ֖ה הָיָ֑ה וְהִנֵּ֨ה תַנּ֤וּר עָשָׁן֙ וְלַפִּ֣יד אֵ֔שׁ אֲשֶׁ֣ר עָבַ֔ר בֵּ֖ין הַגְּזָרִ֥ים הָאֵֽלֶּה׃

Genesis 15:17: 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:393 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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