Genesis 20:11 · JPS 1917
And Abraham said: 'Because I thought: Surely the fear of God is not in this place; and they will slay me for my wife's sake.
Who acts: Abraham, I, fear, things · What happens: say, think, not be, slay, fear · To what, where: place, me, God · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Genesis 20:11 · 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, I, fear, things), 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 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 thought | punct |
| 6 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 8 thought | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 thought | nsubj |
| 8 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | ccomp |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 place | punct |
| 10 | Surely | surely | ADV | _ | 19 place | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 fear | det |
| 12 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 place | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 God | case |
| 14 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 fear | nmod |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 place | cop |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 place | advmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 place | case |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 place | det |
| 19 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 thought | ccomp |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 slay | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 slay | cc |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 slay | nsubj |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 slay | aux |
| 24 | slay | slay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | conj |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 slay | obj |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 sake | case |
| 27 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 wife | nmod:poss |
| 28 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 sake | nmod:poss |
| 29 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 28 wife | case |
| 30 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 slay | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Abraham | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | I | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not is | present | the fear of God | this place | surely property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | slay | future | things = thing | me | for my wife's sake | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | |||
| 5 | fear | God | nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=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
וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ אַבְרָהָ֔ם כִּ֣י אָמַ֗רְתִּי רַ֚ק אֵין־יִרְאַ֣ת אֱלֹהִ֔ים בַּמָּק֖וֹם הַזֶּ֑ה וַהֲרָג֖וּנִי עַל־דְּבַ֥ר אִשְׁתִּֽי׃
Genesis 20:11: 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:533 of Mova's parse database.
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