Genesis 22:13 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in the thicket by his horns.
Who acts: Abraham · What happens: lift up, look, catch · To what, where: eyes, ram, thicket
This is Genesis 22:13 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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), 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 lifted | cc |
| 2 | Abraham | Abraham | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 lifted | nsubj |
| 3 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 lifted | compound:prt |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 lifted | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 looked | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 looked | cc |
| 9 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lifted | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 caught | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 caught | cc |
| 12 | behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 17 caught | discourse |
| 13 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 caught | obl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 ram | det |
| 16 | ram | ram | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 lifted | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 thicket | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 thicket | det |
| 20 | thicket | thicket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 caught | obl |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 horns | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 horns | nmod:poss |
| 23 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 caught | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lifted | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
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- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift up | past | Abraham | Abraham's eyes | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look | past | Abraham not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | catch | participle · passive | a ram | the thicket | behind Abraham; by Abraham's horns | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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
וַיִּשָּׂ֨א אַבְרָהָ֜ם אֶת־עֵינָ֗יו וַיַּרְא֙ וְהִנֵּה־אַ֔יִל אַחַ֕ר נֶאֱחַ֥ז בַּסְּבַ֖ךְ בְּקַרְנָ֑יו וַיֵּ֤לֶךְ אַבְרָהָם֙ וַיִּקַּ֣ח אֶת־הָאַ֔יִל וַיַּעֲלֵ֥הוּ לְעֹלָ֖ה תַּ֥חַת בְּנֽוֹ׃
Genesis 22:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in the thicket by his horns.
- And Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt-offering in the stead of his son.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:GEN:588 of Mova's parse database.
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