Genesis 20:2 · JPS 1917
And Abraham said of Sarah his wife: 'She is my sister.' And Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.
Who acts: Abraham, wife, Abimelech king · What happens: say, be, send, take · To what, where: sister, Sarah · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Genesis 20:2 · 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, wife, Abimelech king), 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 | Abraham | Abraham | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Sarah | case |
| 5 | Sarah | Sarah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | obl |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 wife | nmod:poss |
| 7 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Sarah | appos |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 sister | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 sister | punct |
| 10 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 sister | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 sister | cop |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 sister | nmod:poss |
| 13 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | ccomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 sister | punct |
| 16 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 sent | cc |
| 17 | Abimelech | Abimelech | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 king | compound |
| 18 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sent | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Gerar | case |
| 20 | Gerar | Gerar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 king | nmod |
| 21 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 took | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 took | cc |
| 24 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 sent | conj |
| 25 | Sarah | Sarah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 took | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Abraham | of Sarah | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | wife | my sister | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | send | past | Abimelech king of Gerar | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | take | past | Abimelech king of Gerar not said here | Sarah | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument sarah=Destination |
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
וַיֹּ֧אמֶר אַבְרָהָ֛ם אֶל־שָׂרָ֥ה אִשְׁתּ֖וֹ אֲחֹ֣תִי הִ֑וא וַיִּשְׁלַ֗ח אֲבִימֶ֙לֶךְ֙ מֶ֣לֶךְ גְּרָ֔ר וַיִּקַּ֖ח אֶת־שָׂרָֽה׃
Genesis 20:2: 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:522 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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