Genesis 17:19 · JPS 1917
And God said: 'Nay, but Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son; and thou shalt call his name Isaac; and I will establish My covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his seed after him.
Who acts: God, Sarah, thou, I, My · What happens: say, bear, call, establish, name, covenant · To what, where: son, thee, name, covenant · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Genesis 17:19 · 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, Sarah, thou, I), 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 bear | 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 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 bear | punct |
| 6 | Nay | nay | INTJ | _ | 13 bear | discourse |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bear | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 bear | cc |
| 9 | Sarah | Sarah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 bear | nsubj |
| 10 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 wife | nmod:poss |
| 11 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Sarah | appos |
| 12 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 bear | aux |
| 13 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 14 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 bear | iobj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 son | det |
| 16 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bear | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 call | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 call | cc |
| 19 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 21 call | nsubj |
| 20 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 21 call | aux |
| 21 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 bear | conj |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 name | nmod:poss |
| 23 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 call | obj |
| 24 | Isaac | Isaac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 call | xcomp |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 establish | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 establish | cc |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 establish | nsubj |
| 28 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 establish | aux |
| 29 | establish | establish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 bear | conj |
| 30 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 covenant | nmod:poss |
| 31 | covenant | covenant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 establish | obj |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 him | case |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 establish | obl |
| 34 | for | for | ADP | _ | 37 covenant | case |
| 35 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 covenant | det |
| 36 | everlasting | everlasting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 covenant | amod |
| 37 | covenant | covenant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 establish | obl |
| 38 | for | for | ADP | _ | 40 seed | case |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 seed | nmod:poss |
| 40 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 covenant | nmod |
| 41 | after | after | ADP | _ | 42 him | case |
| 42 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 covenant | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- promise
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=decl, act=promise
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | God | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | bear | shall | Sarah | a son | thee | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent thou=Beneficiary son=Patient | |||
| 3 | call | shall | thou | God's name | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | establish | future | I | My covenant | with God; for a everlasting covenant for God's seed after God | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent covenant=Theme with he=Source | |||
| 5 | name | God | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | covenant | My | nom covenant «communication intransitive»: 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
וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֱלֹהִ֗ים אֲבָל֙ שָׂרָ֣ה אִשְׁתְּךָ֗ יֹלֶ֤דֶת לְךָ֙ בֵּ֔ן וְקָרָ֥אתָ אֶת־שְׁמ֖וֹ יִצְחָ֑ק וַהֲקִמֹתִ֨י אֶת־בְּרִיתִ֥י אִתּ֛וֹ לִבְרִ֥ית עוֹלָ֖ם לְזַרְע֥וֹ אַחֲרָֽיו׃
Genesis 17:19: 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:432 of Mova's parse database.
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