Genesis 20:16 · JPS 1917
And unto Sarah he said: 'Behold, I have given thy brother a thousand pieces of silver; behold, it is for thee a covering of the eyes to all that are with thee; and before all men thou art righted.'
Who acts: Abimelech, I, silver · What happens: say, give, be, right · To what, where: thousand pieces, brother, covering, thou · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Genesis 20:16 · 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, I, silver), 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 | _ | 5 said | cc |
| 2 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 3 Sarah | case |
| 3 | Sarah | Sarah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 given | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 given | punct |
| 8 | Behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 12 given | discourse |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Behold | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 given | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 given | aux |
| 12 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 said | ccomp |
| 13 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 brother | nmod:poss |
| 14 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 given | iobj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 thousand | det |
| 16 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 pieces | nummod |
| 17 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 given | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 silver | case |
| 19 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pieces | nmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 covering | punct |
| 21 | behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 28 covering | discourse |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 behold | punct |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 covering | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 covering | cop |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 thee | case |
| 26 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 28 covering | obl |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 covering | det |
| 28 | covering | covering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | ccomp |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 eyes | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 eyes | det |
| 31 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 covering | nmod |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 all | case |
| 33 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 covering | obl |
| 34 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 thee | nsubj |
| 35 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 thee | cop |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 thee | case |
| 37 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 33 all | acl:relcl |
| 38 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 45 righted | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 righted | cc |
| 40 | before | before | ADP | _ | 42 men | case |
| 41 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 42 men | det |
| 42 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 righted | obl |
| 43 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 45 righted | nsubj:pass |
| 44 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 righted | aux:pass |
| 45 | righted | right | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 said | conj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 47 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Abimelech | unto Sarah | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | give | present · perfect | I | thousand pieces of silver | thy brother | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent brother=Recipient piece=Theme | |||
| 3 | is a | present | silver | a covering | for thee; of the eyes; to all | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is | present | with thee | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | right | present · passive | thou | before all men | 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
וּלְשָׂרָ֣ה אָמַ֗ר הִנֵּ֨ה נָתַ֜תִּי אֶ֤לֶף כֶּ֙סֶף֙ לְאָחִ֔יךְ הִנֵּ֤ה הוּא־לָךְ֙ כְּס֣וּת עֵינַ֔יִם לְכֹ֖ל אֲשֶׁ֣ר אִתָּ֑ךְ וְאֵ֥ת כֹּ֖ל וְנֹכָֽחַת׃
Genesis 20:16: 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:538 of Mova's parse database.
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