Genesis 16:6 · JPS 1917
But Abram said unto Sarai: 'Behold, thy maid is in thy hand; do to her that which is good in thine eyes.' And Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her face.
Who acts: Abram, maid, Sarai · What happens: say, be, do, deal, flee · To what, where: hand, that, Abram, eyes, face · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Genesis 16:6 · 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, maid, Sarai), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 said | cc |
| 2 | Abram | Abram | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 5 Sarai | case |
| 5 | Sarai | Sarai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | obl |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 hand | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 hand | punct |
| 8 | Behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 15 hand | discourse |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Behold | punct |
| 10 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 maid | nmod:poss |
| 11 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hand | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 hand | cop |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 hand | case |
| 14 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 hand | nmod:poss |
| 15 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | ccomp |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 do | punct |
| 17 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | parataxis |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 her | case |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 do | obl |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 do | obj |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 good | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 good | cop |
| 23 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 that | acl:relcl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 eyes | case |
| 25 | thine | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 26 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 26 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 good | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 do | punct |
| 28 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 29 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 dealt | cc |
| 30 | Sarai | Sarai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 dealt | nsubj |
| 31 | dealt | deal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 32 | harshly | harshly | ADV | _ | 31 dealt | advmod |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 her | case |
| 34 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 dealt | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 fled | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 fled | cc |
| 37 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 fled | nsubj |
| 38 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 dealt | conj |
| 39 | from | from | ADP | _ | 41 face | case |
| 40 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 face | nmod:poss |
| 41 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 fled | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- suggest
- voice
- character
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- changed act=suggest
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Abram | unto Sarai | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | present | thy maid | thy hand | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do | infinitive | that | Abram | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | is | present | thine eyes | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | deal | past | Sarai | with Abram; harshly property | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with she=Theme | ||||
| 6 | flee | past | Abram | Abram's face | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from face=Initial_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
וַיֹּ֨אמֶר אַבְרָ֜ם אֶל־שָׂרַ֗י הִנֵּ֤ה שִׁפְחָתֵךְ֙ בְּיָדֵ֔ךְ עֲשִׂי־לָ֖הּ הַטּ֣וֹב בְּעֵינָ֑יִךְ וַתְּעַנֶּ֣הָ שָׂרַ֔י וַתִּבְרַ֖ח מִפָּנֶֽיהָ׃
Genesis 16:6: 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:403 of Mova's parse database.
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