Genesis 21:26 · JPS 1917
And Abimelech said: 'I know not who hath done this thing; neither didst thou tell me, neither yet heard I of it, but to-day.'
Who acts: Abimelech, I, thou · What happens: say, not know, do, tell, hear · To what, where: thing, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Genesis 21:26 · 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, thou), 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 | Abimelech | Abimelech | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 know | punct |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 know | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 know | nsubj |
| 7 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | ccomp |
| 8 | not | not | ADV | Polarity=Neg | 7 know | advmod |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 done | nsubj |
| 10 | hath | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 done | aux |
| 11 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 know | ccomp |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 thing | det |
| 13 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 done | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 tell | punct |
| 15 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 18 tell | cc |
| 16 | didst | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 tell | aux |
| 17 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 18 tell | nsubj |
| 18 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 know | conj |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 tell | iobj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 heard | punct |
| 21 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 23 heard | cc |
| 22 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 23 heard | advmod |
| 23 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 tell | conj |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 heard | nsubj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 it | case |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 heard | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 day | punct |
| 28 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 day | cc |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 day | case |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 to | punct |
| 31 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 heard | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 33 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- neg
- indirect
- yes
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Abimelech | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not know | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | do | present · perfect | this thing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past · do-support | thou | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | hear | past | I | yet; day | of thing | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of it=Stimulus |
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
וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֲבִימֶ֔לֶךְ לֹ֣א יָדַ֔עְתִּי מִ֥י עָשָׂ֖ה אֶת־הַדָּבָ֣ר הַזֶּ֑ה וְגַם־אַתָּ֞ה לֹא־הִגַּ֣דְתָּ לִּ֗י וְגַ֧ם אָנֹכִ֛י לֹ֥א שָׁמַ֖עְתִּי בִּלְתִּ֥י הַיּֽוֹם׃
Genesis 21:26: 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:567 of Mova's parse database.
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