Genesis 21:2 · JPS 1917
And Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.
Who acts: Sarah, God · What happens: conceive, bear, speak · To what, where: son, Abraham, old age, Sarah · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Genesis 21:2 · 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 (Sarah, God), 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 conceived | cc |
| 2 | Sarah | Sarah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 conceived | nsubj |
| 3 | conceived | conceive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 bore | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 bore | cc |
| 6 | bore | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 conceived | conj |
| 7 | Abraham | Abraham | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 bore | iobj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 son | det |
| 9 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bore | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 age | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 age | nmod:poss |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 age | amod |
| 13 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bore | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 time | punct |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 time | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 time | det |
| 17 | set | set | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 time | amod |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bore | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 which | case |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 spoken | obl |
| 21 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 spoken | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 spoken | aux |
| 23 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 time | acl:relcl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 spoken | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 conceived | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | conceive | past | Sarah | vn characterize-29.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | bear | past | Sarah not said here | a son | Abraham | in Sarah's old age; time | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent abraham=Beneficiary son=Patient | ||
| 3 | speak speech: other | past · perfect | God | Sarah | of the set time | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent |
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
וַתַּהַר֩ וַתֵּ֨לֶד שָׂרָ֧ה לְאַבְרָהָ֛ם בֵּ֖ן לִזְקֻנָ֑יו לַמּוֹעֵ֕ד אֲשֶׁר־דִּבֶּ֥ר אֹת֖וֹ אֱלֹהִֽים׃
Genesis 21:2: 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:542 of Mova's parse database.
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