Genesis 21:29 · JPS 1917
And Abimelech said unto Abraham: 'What mean these seven ewe-lambs which thou hast set by themselves?'
Who acts: Abimelech, seven ewe lambs, thou · What happens: say, mean, set · To what, where: seven ewe lambs · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Genesis 21:29 · 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, seven ewe lambs, 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 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 5 Abraham | case |
| 5 | Abraham | Abraham | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | obl |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 mean | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 mean | punct |
| 8 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 mean | obj |
| 9 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | ccomp |
| 10 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 14 lambs | det |
| 11 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 lambs | nummod |
| 12 | ewe | ewe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lambs | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 ewe | punct |
| 14 | lambs | lamb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 mean | nsubj |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 set | obj |
| 16 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 18 set | nsubj |
| 17 | hast | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 set | aux |
| 18 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 lambs | acl:relcl |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 themselves | case |
| 20 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 set | obl |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 mean | punct |
| 22 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 mean | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- wh-question
- act
- ask
- 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 | Abimelech | unto Abraham | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | this seven ewe lambs | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | |||||
| 3 | set | present · perfect | thou | this seven ewe lambs | by Abimelech | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent which=Theme by themselves=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
וַיֹּ֥אמֶר אֲבִימֶ֖לֶךְ אֶל־אַבְרָהָ֑ם מָ֣ה הֵ֗נָּה שֶׁ֤בַע כְּבָשֹׂת֙ הָאֵ֔לֶּה אֲשֶׁ֥ר הִצַּ֖בְתָּ לְבַדָּֽנָה׃
Genesis 21:29: 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:570 of Mova's parse database.
The tree and the speech act come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.
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