Genesis 18:28 · JPS 1917

Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous; wilt Thou destroy all the city for lack of five?' And He said: 'I will not destroy it, if I find there forty and five.'

Who acts: five, Thou, righteous, I · What happens: lack, destroy, say, not destroy, find · To what, where: city, forty · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Genesis 18:28 · 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 (five, Thou, righteous, 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	Peradventure	peradventure	ADV	_	4 lack	advmod
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 lack	expl
3	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 lack	aux
4	lack	lack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 lack	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 righteous	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 righteous	det
8	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 righteous	nummod
9	righteous	righteous	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 five	nmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 destroy	punct
11	wilt	will	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	13 destroy	aux
12	Thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	13 destroy	nsubj
13	destroy	destroy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 lack	parataxis
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 city	det:predet
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 city	det
16	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 destroy	obj
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 lack	case
18	lack	lack	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 destroy	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 five	case
20	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 lack	nmod
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 destroy	punct
22	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 lack	punct
23	And	and	CCONJ	_	25 said	cc
24	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 said	nsubj
25	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lack	conj
26	:	:	PUNCT	_	31 destroy	punct
27	'	'	PUNCT	_	31 destroy	punct
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 destroy	nsubj
29	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 destroy	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 destroy	advmod
31	destroy	destroy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 said	ccomp
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 destroy	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 find	punct
34	if	if	SCONJ	_	36 find	mark
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 find	nsubj
36	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 destroy	advcl
37	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	36 find	advmod
38	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 find	obj
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 five	cc
40	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 forty	conj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lack	punct
42	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 lack	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lack	shall	five of the fifty righteous		there	peradventure property	tree rules
2	destroy	future	Thou	all city		for lack of five	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Patient
3	say speech: assert	past	righteous				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not destroy	future	I	city			vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
5	find a condition, not said to happen	present	I	forty	there		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forty=Topic

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

א֠וּלַי יַחְסְר֞וּן חֲמִשִּׁ֤ים הַצַּדִּיקִם֙ חֲמִשָּׁ֔ה הֲתַשְׁחִ֥ית בַּחֲמִשָּׁ֖ה אֶת־כָּל־הָעִ֑יר וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ לֹ֣א אַשְׁחִ֔ית אִם־אֶמְצָ֣א שָׁ֔ם אַרְבָּעִ֖ים וַחֲמִשָּֽׁה׃

Genesis 18:28: 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:470 of Mova's parse database.

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