Genesis 17:1 · JPS 1917
And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him: 'I am God Almighty; walk before Me, and be thou wholehearted.
Who acts: Abram, LORD, I, thou · What happens: be, appear, say, walk · To what, where: Abram, God · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Genesis 17:1 · 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, LORD, I, thou), 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 | _ | 13 appeared | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 7 old | mark |
| 3 | Abram | Abram | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 old | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 old | cop |
| 5 | ninety | ninety | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 years | nummod |
| 6 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 old | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 appeared | advcl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 nine | cc |
| 9 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 old | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 old | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 LORD | det |
| 12 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 appeared | nsubj |
| 13 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 Abram | case |
| 15 | Abram | Abram | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 appeared | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 said | cc |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 appeared | conj |
| 19 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 said | iobj |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 God | punct |
| 22 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 God | punct |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 God | nsubj |
| 24 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 God | cop |
| 25 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 said | ccomp |
| 26 | Almighty | almighty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 God | flat |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 walk | punct |
| 28 | walk | walk | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 18 said | conj |
| 29 | before | before | ADP | _ | 30 Me | case |
| 30 | Me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 walk | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 wholehearted | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 wholehearted | cc |
| 33 | be | be | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 35 wholehearted | cop |
| 34 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 35 wholehearted | nsubj |
| 35 | wholehearted | wholehearted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 walk | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Abram | year | old property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | appear | past | the LORD | Abram | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the LORD not said here | Abram | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Topic | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | I | God | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | walk | infinitive | the LORD not said here | before Me | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before i=Trajectory | ||||
| 6 | is | infinitive | thou | wholehearted property | tree rules |
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
וַיְהִ֣י אַבְרָ֔ם בֶּן־תִּשְׁעִ֥ים שָׁנָ֖ה וְתֵ֣שַׁע שָׁנִ֑ים וַיֵּרָ֨א יְהוָ֜ה אֶל־אַבְרָ֗ם וַיֹּ֤אמֶר אֵלָיו֙ אֲנִי־אֵ֣ל שַׁדַּ֔י הִתְהַלֵּ֥ךְ לְפָנַ֖י וֶהְיֵ֥ה תָמִֽים׃
Genesis 17:1: 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:414 of Mova's parse database.
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