Genesis 20:4 · JPS 1917
Now Abimelech had not come near her; and he said: 'Lord, wilt Thou slay even a righteous nation?
Who acts: Abimelech, Thou · What happens: not come, say, slay · To what, where: righteous nation · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Genesis 20:4 · 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 (Abimelech, Thou), 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 | Now | now | ADV | _ | 5 come | advmod |
| 2 | Abimelech | Abimelech | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 come | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 come | advmod |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | near | near | ADV | _ | 5 come | advmod |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 near | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | conj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 slay | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 slay | punct |
| 14 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 slay | vocative |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 slay | punct |
| 16 | wilt | will | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 18 slay | aux |
| 17 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 18 slay | nsubj |
| 18 | slay | slay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 19 | even | even | ADV | _ | 22 nation | advmod |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 nation | det |
| 21 | righteous | righteous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 nation | amod |
| 22 | nation | nation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 slay | obj |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 18 slay | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- ask
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- indirect
- yes
- teacher
- changed form=q
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not come | past · perfect | Abimelech | now | near property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Abimelech | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | slay | future | Thou | a righteous nation | Lord vocative | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nation=Patient |
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
וַאֲבִימֶ֕לֶךְ לֹ֥א קָרַ֖ב אֵלֶ֑יהָ וַיֹּאמַ֕ר אֲדֹנָ֕י הֲג֥וֹי גַּם־צַדִּ֖יק תַּהֲרֹֽג׃
Genesis 20:4: 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:524 of Mova's parse database.
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