Genesis 19:4 · JPS 1917

But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both young and old, all the people from every quarter.

Who acts: feet, men · What happens: lie down, compass · To what, where: house

This is Genesis 19:4 · 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 (feet, men), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	19 compassed	cc
2	before	before	SCONJ	_	4 lay	mark
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lay	nsubj
4	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 compassed	advcl
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 lay	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 lay	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 men	det
8	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 compassed	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 city	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 city	det
11	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 men	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 men	punct
13	even	even	ADV	_	15 men	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 men	det
15	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 men	appos
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 Sodom	case
17	Sodom	Sodom	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 men	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 men	punct
19	compassed	compass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 house	det
21	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 compassed	obj
22	round	round	ADV	_	19 compassed	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 young	punct
24	both	both	CCONJ	_	25 young	cc:preconj
25	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 compassed	advcl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 old	cc
27	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 young	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 people	punct
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 people	det:predet
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 people	det
31	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 men	appos
32	from	from	ADP	_	34 quarter	case
33	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	34 quarter	det
34	quarter	quarter	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 people	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 compassed	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	lie down	past	feet = foot						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	compass	past	the men of the city	the house				round 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

טֶרֶם֮ יִשְׁכָּבוּ֒ וְאַנְשֵׁ֨י הָעִ֜יר אַנְשֵׁ֤י סְדֹם֙ נָסַ֣בּוּ עַל־הַבַּ֔יִת מִנַּ֖עַר וְעַד־זָקֵ֑ן כָּל־הָעָ֖ם מִקָּצֶֽה׃

Genesis 19:4: 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:482 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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