Genesis 18:18 · JPS 1917
seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
Who acts: Abraham · What happens: see, become, bless · To what, where: great nation, nations
This is Genesis 18:18 · 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), 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 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 become | mark |
| 3 | Abraham | Abraham | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 become | nsubj |
| 4 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 become | aux |
| 5 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 6 become | advmod |
| 6 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 seeing | advcl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 nation | det |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 nation | amod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 mighty | cc |
| 10 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 nation | conj |
| 11 | nation | nation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 become | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 blessed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 blessed | cc |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 nations | det:predet |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 nations | det |
| 16 | nations | nation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 blessed | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 earth | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 earth | det |
| 19 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 nations | nmod |
| 20 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 blessed | aux |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 blessed | aux:pass |
| 22 | blessed | bless | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 become | conj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 blessed | obl |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 seeing | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- ask
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=ask, voice=character, polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | become | shall | Abraham | a great nation | surely property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 3 | bless | shall · passive | all nations of the earth | in Abraham | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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
וְאַ֨בְרָהָ֔ם הָי֧וֹ יִֽהְיֶ֛ה לְג֥וֹי גָּד֖וֹל וְעָצ֑וּם וְנִ֨בְרְכוּ ב֔וֹ כֹּ֖ל גּוֹיֵ֥י הָאָֽרֶץ׃
Genesis 18:18: 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:460 of Mova's parse database.
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