Genesis 20:5 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
Said he not himself unto me: She is my sister? and she, even she herself said: He is my brother.
Who acts: Abimelech, woman · What happens: not say, be, say · To what, where: sister, brother · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Genesis 20:5 · 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 (Abimelech, woman), 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 | Said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Said | nsubj |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 1 Said | advmod |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 he | nmod:unmarked |
| 5 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 6 me | case |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Said | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 Said | punct |
| 8 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 sister | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 sister | cop |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 sister | nmod:poss |
| 11 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Said | ccomp |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Said | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 said | cc |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 said | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 she | punct |
| 16 | even | even | ADV | _ | 17 she | advmod |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 she | appos |
| 18 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 she | nmod:unmarked |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Said | conj |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 brother | punct |
| 21 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 brother | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 brother | cop |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 brother | nmod:poss |
| 24 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 said | ccomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- indirect
- yes
- teacher
- changed act=assert, indirect=1, voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not say speech: assert | past | Abimelech | unto me | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | woman | my sister | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | Abimelech | my brother | 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
הֲלֹ֨א ה֤וּא אָֽמַר־לִי֙ אֲחֹ֣תִי הִ֔וא וְהִֽיא־גַם־הִ֥וא אָֽמְרָ֖ה אָחִ֣י ה֑וּא בְּתָם־לְבָבִ֛י וּבְנִקְיֹ֥ן כַּפַּ֖י עָשִׂ֥יתִי זֹֽאת׃
Genesis 20:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- Said he not himself unto me: She is my sister? and she, even she herself said: He is my brother.
- In the simplicity of my heart and the innocency of my hands have I done this.'
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:GEN:525 of Mova's parse database.
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