Genesis 21:30 · JPS 1917
And he said: 'Verily, these seven ewe-lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that it may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well.'
Who acts: Abraham, thou, hand, I · What happens: say, take, be, digg · To what, where: seven ewe lambs, witness, well · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Genesis 21:30 · 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 (Abraham, thou, hand, I), 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 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 take | punct |
| 6 | Verily | verily | ADV | _ | 15 take | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Verily | punct |
| 8 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 12 lambs | det |
| 9 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 lambs | nummod |
| 10 | ewe | ewe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lambs | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 ewe | punct |
| 12 | lambs | lamb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 take | obj |
| 13 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 15 take | aux |
| 14 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 take | nsubj |
| 15 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 hand | case |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 hand | nmod:poss |
| 18 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 take | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 witness | punct |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 witness | mark |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 witness | nsubj |
| 22 | may | may | AUX | _ | 25 witness | aux |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 witness | cop |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 witness | det |
| 25 | witness | witness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 take | advcl |
| 26 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 27 me | case |
| 27 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 witness | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 digged | punct |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 digged | mark |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 digged | nsubj |
| 31 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 digged | aux |
| 32 | digged | digg | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 take | advcl |
| 33 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 34 well | det |
| 34 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 digged | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 36 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- request
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- hedged
- yes
- teacher
- changed act=request
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Abraham | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | take | shall | thou | this seven ewe lambs | of my hand; verily property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent lamb=Theme of hand=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | is a | may | hand | a witness | unto me | tree rules | |||
| 4 | digg | present · perfect | I | this well | 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
וַיֹּ֕אמֶר כִּ֚י אֶת־שֶׁ֣בַע כְּבָשֹׂ֔ת תִּקַּ֖ח מִיָּדִ֑י בַּעֲבוּר֙ תִּֽהְיֶה־לִּ֣י לְעֵדָ֔ה כִּ֥י חָפַ֖רְתִּי אֶת־הַבְּאֵ֥ר הַזֹּֽאת׃
Genesis 21:30: 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:571 of Mova's parse database.
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