Genesis 3:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made.
Who acts: serpent, LORD God · What happens: be, make · To what, where: beast
This is Genesis 3:1 · 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 (serpent, LORD God), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 subtle | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 serpent | det |
| 3 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 subtle | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 subtle | cop |
| 5 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 subtle | advmod |
| 6 | subtle | subtle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 9 beast | case |
| 8 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 beast | det |
| 9 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 subtle | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 field | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 field | det |
| 12 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 beast | nmod |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 made | obj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 God | det |
| 15 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 God | compound |
| 16 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 made | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 made | aux |
| 18 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 beast | acl:relcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 subtle | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
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- voice
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- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the serpent | now | than any beast of the field; subtle property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | make | past · perfect | the LORD God | any beast of the field | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Product |
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
וְהַנָּחָשׁ֙ הָיָ֣ה עָר֔וּם מִכֹּל֙ חַיַּ֣ת הַשָּׂדֶ֔ה אֲשֶׁ֥ר עָשָׂ֖ה יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהִ֑ים וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ אֶל־הָ֣אִשָּׁ֔ה אַ֚ף כִּֽי־אָמַ֣ר אֱלֹהִ֔ים לֹ֣א תֹֽאכְל֔וּ מִכֹּ֖ל עֵ֥ץ הַגָּֽן׃
Genesis 3:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made.
- And he said unto the woman: 'Yea, hath God said: Ye shall not eat of any tree of the garden?'
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:GEN:60 of Mova's parse database.
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