Genesis 21:31 · JPS 1917
Wherefore that place was called Beer-sheba; because there they swore both of them.
Who acts: lambs · What happens: call, swear · To what, where: place, both · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Genesis 21:31 · 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 (lambs), 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 | Wherefore | wherefore | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 called | advmod |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 place | det |
| 3 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 called | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 called | aux:pass |
| 5 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | Beer | beer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 called | xcomp |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 sheba | punct |
| 8 | sheba | sheba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Beer | flat |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 swore | punct |
| 10 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 13 swore | mark |
| 11 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 swore | advmod |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 swore | nsubj |
| 13 | swore | swear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 called | advcl |
| 14 | both | both | PRON | PronType=Tot | 13 swore | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 them | case |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 both | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 called | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past · passive | that place | wherefore property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | swear | past | lambs = lamb | both | there | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent both=Eventuality |
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
עַל־כֵּ֗ן קָרָ֛א לַמָּק֥וֹם הַה֖וּא בְּאֵ֣ר שָׁ֑בַע בְּאֵ֣ר שָׁ֑בַע כִּ֛י שָׁ֥ם נִשְׁבְּע֖וּ שְׁנֵיהֶֽם׃
Genesis 21:31: 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:572 of Mova's parse database.
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