Genesis 24:50 · JPS 1917

Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said: 'The thing proceedeth from the LORD; we cannot speak unto thee bad or good.

Who acts: Laban, thing, we · What happens: answer, say, proceed, not speak · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Genesis 24:50 · 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 (Laban, thing, we), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 answered	advmod
2	Laban	Laban	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 answered	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 Bethuel	cc
4	Bethuel	Bethuel	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Laban	conj
5	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 said	cc
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 answered	conj
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 proceedeth	punct
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 proceedeth	punct
10	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 thing	det
11	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 proceedeth	nsubj
12	proceedeth	proceed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 said	ccomp
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 LORD	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 LORD	det
15	LORD	LORD	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 proceedeth	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 speak	punct
17	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 speak	nsubj
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 speak	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 speak	advmod
20	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 answered	conj
21	unto	unto	ADP	_	22 thee	case
22	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	20 speak	obl
23	bad	bad	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 speak	advmod
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	25 good	cc
25	good	good	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 bad	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 answered	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
polarity: neg
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	Laban and Bethuel	then		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	Laban and Bethuel not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	proceed	present	the thing		from the LORD	vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent
4	not speak speech: other	can	we		unto thee; bad property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

וַיַּ֨עַן לָבָ֤ן וּבְתוּאֵל֙ וַיֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ מֵיְהוָ֖ה יָצָ֣א הַדָּבָ֑ר לֹ֥א נוּכַ֛ל דַּבֵּ֥ר אֵלֶ֖יךָ רַ֥ע אוֹ־טֽוֹב׃

Genesis 24:50: 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:675 of Mova's parse database.

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