Genesis 24:15 · JPS 1917
And it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder.
Who acts: water, servant, Rebekah · What happens: come, pass, do, speak, come out, bear · To what, where: Rebekah, Bethuel · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Genesis 24:15 · 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 (water, servant, Rebekah), 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 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 done | punct |
| 7 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 10 done | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 done | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 done | aux |
| 10 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 came | advcl |
| 11 | speaking | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 done | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 came | punct |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 came | mark |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 behold | punct |
| 15 | behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 18 came | discourse |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 behold | punct |
| 17 | Rebekah | Rebekah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 came | nsubj |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | csubj |
| 19 | out | out | ADV | _ | 18 came | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 born | punct |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 born | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 born | aux:pass |
| 23 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 Rebekah | acl:relcl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 Bethuel | case |
| 25 | Bethuel | Bethuel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 born | obl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 son | det |
| 27 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 Bethuel | appos |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Milcah | case |
| 29 | Milcah | Milcah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 son | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 wife | punct |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 wife | det |
| 32 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 Milcah | appos |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 Nahor | case |
| 34 | Nahor | Nahor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 wife | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 brother | punct |
| 36 | Abraham | Abraham | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 brother | nmod:poss |
| 37 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 36 Abraham | case |
| 38 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 Nahor | appos |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 pitcher | punct |
| 40 | with | with | ADP | _ | 42 pitcher | case |
| 41 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 pitcher | nmod:poss |
| 42 | pitcher | pitcher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | obl |
| 43 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 45 shoulder | case |
| 44 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 45 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 pitcher | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | water | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | pass | to-infinitive | water not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | do | past · perfect | servant | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | speak speech: other | gerund | servant not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | come out | past | Rebekah | with Rebekah's pitcher upon Rebekah's shoulder; out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 6 | bear | past · passive | Rebekah | Bethuel | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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
וַֽיְהִי־ה֗וּא טֶרֶם֮ כִּלָּ֣ה לְדַבֵּר֒ וְהִנֵּ֧ה רִבְקָ֣ה יֹצֵ֗את אֲשֶׁ֤ר יֻלְּדָה֙ לִבְתוּאֵ֣ל בֶּן־מִלְכָּ֔ה אֵ֥שֶׁת נָח֖וֹר אֲחִ֣י אַבְרָהָ֑ם וְכַדָּ֖הּ עַל־שִׁכְמָֽהּ׃
Genesis 24:15: 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:635 of Mova's parse database.
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