Genesis 18:27 · JPS 1917

And Abraham answered and said: 'Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, who am but dust and ashes.

Who acts: Abraham, I, Lord · What happens: answer, say, take, speak, be · To what, where: dust · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Genesis 18:27 · 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, I, Lord), 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 answered	cc
2	Abraham	Abraham	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 answered	nsubj
3	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 said	cc
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 answered	conj
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 taken	punct
8	Behold	behold	INTJ	_	13 taken	discourse
9	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 taken	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 now	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 taken	nsubj
12	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 taken	aux
13	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 said	ccomp
14	upon	upon	ADP	_	15 me	case
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 taken	obl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 speak	mark
17	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 taken	xcomp
18	unto	unto	ADP	_	20 Lord	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Lord	det
20	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 speak	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 dust	punct
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 dust	nsubj
23	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 dust	cop
24	but	but	ADV	_	25 dust	advmod
25	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 Lord	acl:relcl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 ashes	cc
27	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 dust	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 answered	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	Abraham				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	Abraham not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	take	present · perfect	I		now	upon me	vn require-103 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition
4	speak speech: other	to-infinitive	I not said here			unto the Lord	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a	present	the Lord	dust and ashes		but property	tree rules

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

וַיַּ֥עַן אַבְרָהָ֖ם וַיֹּאמַ֑ר הִנֵּה־נָ֤א הוֹאַ֙לְתִּי֙ לְדַבֵּ֣ר אֶל־אֲדֹנָ֔י וְאָנֹכִ֖י עָפָ֥ר וָאֵֽפֶר׃

Genesis 18:27: 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:469 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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