Genesis 18:8 · JPS 1917
And he took curd, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat.
Who acts: Abraham, curd · What happens: take, dress, set, stand, eat · To what, where: curd, calf, tree
This is Genesis 18:8 · 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 (Abraham, curd), 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 took | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | curd | curd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 milk | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 milk | cc |
| 7 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 curd | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 calf | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 calf | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 calf | det |
| 11 | calf | calf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 curd | conj |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 dressed | obj |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 dressed | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 dressed | aux |
| 15 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 calf | acl:relcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 set | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 set | cc |
| 18 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 set | obj |
| 20 | before | before | ADP | _ | 21 them | case |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 set | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 stood | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 stood | cc |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 stood | nsubj |
| 25 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 them | case |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 stood | obl |
| 28 | under | under | ADP | _ | 30 tree | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 tree | det |
| 30 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 stood | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 eat | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 eat | cc |
| 33 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 eat | nsubj |
| 34 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 eat | aux |
| 35 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 took | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Abraham | curd and milk and the calf | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curd=Theme | ||||
| 2 | dress | past · perfect | Abraham | the calf | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient | ||||
| 3 | set | past | Abraham not said here | calf | before curd | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme before they=Destination | |||
| 4 | stand | past | Abraham | the tree | by curd | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by they=Location | |||
| 5 | eat | past · do-support | curd | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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
וַיִּקַּ֨ח חֶמְאָ֜ה וְחָלָ֗ב וּבֶן־הַבָּקָר֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר עָשָׂ֔ה וַיִּתֵּ֖ן לִפְנֵיהֶ֑ם וְהֽוּא־עֹמֵ֧ד עֲלֵיהֶ֛ם תַּ֥חַת הָעֵ֖ץ וַיֹּאכֵֽלוּ׃
Genesis 18:8: 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:448 of Mova's parse database.
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