Genesis 19:34 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2
Let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.'
Who acts: us, father, thou, we · What happens: let, make, drink, go, lie, preserve · To what, where: wine, seed
This is Genesis 19:34 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 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 (us, father, thou, we), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | nsubj |
| 3 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | ccomp |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 drink | nsubj |
| 5 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 make | ccomp |
| 6 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 drink | obj |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 night | det |
| 8 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 drink | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | also | also | ADV | _ | 5 drink | advmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 go | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 go | cc |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | conj |
| 13 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 go | nsubj |
| 14 | in | in | ADV | _ | 12 go | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 lie | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 lie | cc |
| 17 | lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 go | conj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 lie | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 preserve | punct |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 preserve | mark |
| 22 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 preserve | nsubj |
| 23 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 preserve | aux |
| 24 | preserve | preserve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 lie | advcl |
| 25 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 preserve | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 father | case |
| 27 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 father | nmod:poss |
| 28 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 seed | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 30 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- suggest
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | make | infinitive | us not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | drink | infinitive | father | wine | night | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wine=Patient | |||
| 4 | go | infinitive | thou | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | lie | infinitive | thou not said here | with father | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | preserve | may | we | seed of our father | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Beneficiary |
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
וַֽיְהִי֙ מִֽמָּחֳרָ֔ת וַתֹּ֤אמֶר הַבְּכִירָה֙ אֶל־הַצְּעִירָ֔ה הֵן־שָׁכַ֥בְתִּי אֶ֖מֶשׁ אֶת־אָבִ֑י נַשְׁקֶ֨נּוּ יַ֜יִן גַּם־הַלַּ֗יְלָה וּבֹ֙אִי֙ שִׁכְבִ֣י עִמּ֔וֹ וּנְחַיֶּ֥ה מֵאָבִ֖ינוּ זָֽרַע׃
Genesis 19:34: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- And it came to pass on the morrow, that the first-born said unto the younger: 'Behold, I lay yesternight with my father.
- Let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.'
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:GEN:515 of Mova's parse database.
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