Genesis 21:21 · JPS 1917
And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran; and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.
Who acts: God, mother · What happens: dwell, take · To what, where: wilderness, wife, God, land
This is Genesis 21:21 · 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 (God, mother), 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 dwelt | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 dwelt | nsubj |
| 3 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 wilderness | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wilderness | det |
| 6 | wilderness | wilderness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dwelt | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Paran | case |
| 8 | Paran | Paran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 wilderness | nmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 took | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 took | cc |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 mother | nmod:poss |
| 12 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 took | nsubj |
| 13 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dwelt | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 took | iobj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 wife | det |
| 16 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 took | obj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 land | case |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 land | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 land | det |
| 20 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 took | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Egypt | case |
| 22 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 land | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dwelt | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
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- voice
- narrator
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dwell | past | God | the wilderness of Paran | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wilderness=Location | ||||
| 2 | take | past | God's mother | a wife | God | the land of Egypt | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Theme wife=Destination |
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
וַיֵּ֖שֶׁב בְּמִדְבַּ֣ר פָּארָ֑ן וַתִּֽקַּֽח־ל֥וֹ אִמּ֛וֹ אִשָּׁ֖ה מֵאֶ֥רֶץ מִצְרָֽיִם׃פ
Genesis 21:21: 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:562 of Mova's parse database.
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