Genesis 18:31 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
And he said: 'Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord.
Who acts: righteous, I · What happens: say, take, speak · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Genesis 18:31 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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 (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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 said | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 taken | punct |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 taken | punct |
| 6 | Behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 11 taken | discourse |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 taken | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 taken | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 taken | nsubj |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 taken | aux |
| 11 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 said | ccomp |
| 12 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 13 me | case |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 taken | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 speak | mark |
| 15 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 taken | xcomp |
| 16 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 18 Lord | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Lord | det |
| 18 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 speak | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | righteous | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | take | present · perfect | I | now | upon me | vn require-103 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition | |||
| 3 | speak speech: other | to-infinitive | I not said here | unto the Lord | vn talk-37.5 «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
וַיֹּ֗אמֶר הִנֵּֽה־נָ֤א הוֹאַ֙לְתִּי֙ לְדַבֵּ֣ר אֶל־אֲדֹנָ֔י אוּלַ֛י יִמָּצְא֥וּן שָׁ֖ם עֶשְׂרִ֑ים וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ לֹ֣א אַשְׁחִ֔ית בַּעֲב֖וּר הָֽעֶשְׂרִֽים׃
Genesis 18:31: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- And he said: 'Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord.
- Peradventure there shall be twenty found there.' And He said: 'I will not destroy it for the twenty's sake.'
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:GEN:474 of Mova's parse database.
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