Genesis 18:4 · JPS 1917
Let now a little water be fetched, and wash your feet, and recline yourselves under the tree.
Who acts: you · What happens: let, fetch, wash, recline · To what, where: little water, feet, yourselves, tree
This is Genesis 18:4 · 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 (you), 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 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 fetched | advmod |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 water | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 water | amod |
| 5 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fetched | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 fetched | aux:pass |
| 7 | fetched | fetch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Let | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 wash | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 wash | cc |
| 10 | wash | wash | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | conj |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 feet | nmod:poss |
| 12 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 wash | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 recline | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 recline | cc |
| 15 | recline | recline | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | conj |
| 16 | yourselves | yourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 recline | obj |
| 17 | under | under | ADP | _ | 19 tree | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 tree | det |
| 19 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 recline | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | fetch | infinitive · passive | a little water | now | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | wash | infinitive | you not said here | your feet | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Patient | ||||
| 4 | recline | infinitive | you not said here | yourselves | the tree | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent yourselves=Theme under tree=Destination |
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
יֻקַּֽח־נָ֣א מְעַט־מַ֔יִם וְרַחֲצ֖וּ רַגְלֵיכֶ֑ם וְהִֽשָּׁעֲנ֖וּ תַּ֥חַת הָעֵֽץ׃
Genesis 18:4: 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:444 of Mova's parse database.
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