Genesis 17:15 · JPS 1917
And God said unto Abraham: 'As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be.
Who acts: God, thou, wife, Sarah · What happens: say, not call, name · To what, where: name · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Genesis 17:15 · 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 (God, thou, wife, Sarah), 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 | God | God | 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 Abraham | case |
| 5 | Abraham | Abraham | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | obl |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 call | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 call | punct |
| 8 | As | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 10 Sarai | case |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 As | fixed |
| 10 | Sarai | Sarai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 call | obl |
| 11 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 wife | nmod:poss |
| 12 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Sarai | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Sarai | punct |
| 14 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 17 call | nsubj |
| 15 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 17 call | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 call | advmod |
| 17 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | ccomp |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 name | nmod:poss |
| 19 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 call | obj |
| 20 | Sarai | Sarai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 name | appos |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 be | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 be | cc |
| 23 | Sarah | Sarah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 be | nsubj |
| 24 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 be | aux |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 name | nmod:poss |
| 26 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 be | nsubj |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 call | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=decl, act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | God | unto Abraham | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not call | shall | thou | wife's name | as Sarai | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient | |||
| 3 | name | wife | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | name | Sarah | nom name «communication 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 אֱלֹהִים֙ אֶל־אַבְרָהָ֔ם שָׂרַ֣י אִשְׁתְּךָ֔ לֹא־תִקְרָ֥א אֶת־שְׁמָ֖הּ שָׂרָ֑י כִּ֥י שָׂרָ֖ה שְׁמָֽהּ׃
Genesis 17:15: 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:428 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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