Genesis 22:20 · JPS 1917
And it came to pass after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying: 'Behold, Milcah, she also hath borne children unto thy brother Nahor:
Who acts: seed, Milcah · What happens: come, pass, tell, say, bear · To what, where: seed, Abraham, children · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Genesis 22:20 · 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 (seed, Milcah), 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 came | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 pass | mark |
| 5 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 came | xcomp |
| 6 | after | after | ADP | _ | 8 things | case |
| 7 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 things | det |
| 8 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 pass | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 told | punct |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 told | mark |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 told | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 told | aux:pass |
| 13 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 came | ccomp |
| 14 | Abraham | Abraham | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 told | iobj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 saying | punct |
| 16 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 told | advcl |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 26 borne | punct |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 borne | punct |
| 19 | Behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 26 borne | discourse |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Milcah | punct |
| 21 | Milcah | Milcah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 borne | dislocated |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 borne | punct |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 borne | nsubj |
| 24 | also | also | ADV | _ | 26 borne | advmod |
| 25 | hath | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 borne | aux |
| 26 | borne | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 saying | ccomp |
| 27 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 borne | obj |
| 28 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 30 brother | case |
| 29 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 30 brother | nmod:poss |
| 30 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 borne | obl |
| 31 | Nahor | Nahor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 brother | appos |
| 32 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=narrate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | seed | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | pass | to-infinitive | seed not said here | after this things | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past · passive | seed | Abraham | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient abraham=Topic | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | gerund | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 5 | bear | present · perfect | Milcah | children | unto thy brother; Milcah dislocated | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient |
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
וַיְהִ֗י אַחֲרֵי֙ הַדְּבָרִ֣ים הָאֵ֔לֶּה וַיֻּגַּ֥ד לְאַבְרָהָ֖ם לֵאמֹ֑ר הִ֠נֵּה יָלְדָ֨ה מִלְכָּ֥ה גַם־הִ֛וא בָּנִ֖ים לְנָח֥וֹר אָחִֽיךָ׃
Genesis 22:20: 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:596 of Mova's parse database.
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