Genesis 24:23 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
and said: 'Whose daughter art thou? tell me, I pray thee.
Who acts: thou, daughter, I · What happens: say, be, tell, pray · To what, where: daughter, me, thee · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Genesis 24:23 · 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 (thou, daughter, I), 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 | _ | 2 said | cc |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 tell | punct |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 tell | punct |
| 5 | Whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 6 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 6 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tell | nsubj |
| 7 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 daughter | cop |
| 8 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 daughter | nsubj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 daughter | punct |
| 10 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | ccomp |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 tell | iobj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 pray | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 pray | nsubj |
| 14 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 tell | parataxis |
| 15 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 pray | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- wh-question
- act
- ask
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=wh, act=ask
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | thou | daughter | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | daughter | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | pray | present | I | thee | tree rules |
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
וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ בַּת־מִ֣י אַ֔תְּ הַגִּ֥ידִי נָ֖א לִ֑י הֲיֵ֧שׁ בֵּית־אָבִ֛יךְ מָק֥וֹם לָ֖נוּ לָלִֽין׃
Genesis 24:23: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- and said: 'Whose daughter art thou? tell me, I pray thee.
- Is there room in thy father's house for us to lodge in?'
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:GEN:643 of Mova's parse database.
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