Genesis 16:11 · JPS 1917
And the angel of the LORD said unto her: 'Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son; and thou shalt call his name Ishmael, because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
Who acts: angel, thou, LORD, thy · What happens: say, be, bear, call, hear, name · To what, where: son, name, affliction · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Genesis 16:11 · 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 (angel, thou, LORD, thy), 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 | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 angel | det |
| 3 | angel | angel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 LORD | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 LORD | det |
| 6 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 angel | nmod |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 9 her | case |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | obl |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 child | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 child | punct |
| 12 | Behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 17 child | discourse |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Behold | punct |
| 14 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 17 child | nsubj |
| 15 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 child | cop |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 child | case |
| 17 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | ccomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 bear | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 bear | cc |
| 20 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 21 bear | aux |
| 21 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 child | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 son | det |
| 23 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bear | obj |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 call | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 call | cc |
| 26 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 28 call | nsubj |
| 27 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 28 call | aux |
| 28 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 child | conj |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 name | nmod:poss |
| 30 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 call | obj |
| 31 | Ishmael | Ishmael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 name | appos |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 heard | punct |
| 33 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 37 heard | mark |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 LORD | det |
| 35 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 heard | nsubj |
| 36 | hath | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 heard | aux |
| 37 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 call | advcl |
| 38 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 39 affliction | nmod:poss |
| 39 | affliction | affliction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 heard | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=narrate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the angel of the LORD | unto Abram | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | present | thou | with child | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bear | shall | thou not said here | a son | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient | ||||
| 4 | call | shall | thou | angel's name | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | hear | present · perfect | the LORD | thy affliction | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer affliction=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | name | angel | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | afflict | thy | nom affliction «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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
וַיֹּ֤אמֶר לָהּ֙ מַלְאַ֣ךְ יְהוָ֔ה הִנָּ֥ךְ הָרָ֖ה וְיֹלַ֣דְתְּ בֵּ֑ן וְקָרָ֤את שְׁמוֹ֙ יִשְׁמָעֵ֔אל כִּֽי־שָׁמַ֥ע יְהוָ֖ה אֶל־עָנְיֵֽךְ׃
Genesis 16:11: 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:408 of Mova's parse database.
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