Genesis 24:37 · JPS 1917
And my master made me swear, saying: Thou shalt not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell.
Who acts: master, me, Thou, I · What happens: make, swear, say, not take, dwell · To what, where: me, wife, land · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Genesis 24:37 · 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 (master, me, Thou, 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 | _ | 4 made | cc |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 master | nmod:poss |
| 3 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | nsubj |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 made | obj |
| 6 | swear | swear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 made | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 saying | punct |
| 8 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 made | advcl |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 take | punct |
| 10 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 take | nsubj |
| 11 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 13 take | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 take | advmod |
| 13 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 saying | ccomp |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 wife | det |
| 15 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 take | obj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 son | case |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 son | nmod:poss |
| 18 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 take | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 daughters | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 daughters | det |
| 21 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 son | nmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Canaanites | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Canaanites | det |
| 24 | Canaanites | Canaanites | PROPN | Number=Plur | 21 daughters | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 dwell | punct |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 land | case |
| 27 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 28 land | nmod:poss |
| 28 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 dwell | obl |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 dwell | nsubj |
| 30 | dwell | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 Canaanites | acl:relcl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | my master | me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | swear | infinitive | me not said here | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | my master not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | not take | shall | Thou | a wife | for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent wife=Theme for son=Beneficiary | |||
| 5 | dwell | present | I | land | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in land=Location |
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
וַיַּשְׁבִּעֵ֥נִי אֲדֹנִ֖י לֵאמֹ֑ר לֹא־תִקַּ֤ח אִשָּׁה֙ לִבְנִ֔י מִבְּנוֹת֙ הַֽכְּנַעֲנִ֔י אֲשֶׁ֥ר אָנֹכִ֖י יֹשֵׁ֥ב בְּאַרְצֽוֹ׃
Genesis 24:37: 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:658 of Mova's parse database.
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