Genesis 24:63 · JPS 1917

And Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the eventide; and he lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, there were camels coming.

Who acts: Isaac, camels · What happens: go out, meditate, lift up, see, be, come · To what, where: eventide, field, eyes

This is Genesis 24:63 · 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 (Isaac, camels), 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 went	cc
2	Isaac	Isaac	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 meditate	mark
6	meditate	meditate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 went	advcl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 field	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 field	det
9	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 meditate	obl
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 eventide	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 eventide	det
12	eventide	eventide	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 lifted	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 lifted	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 lifted	nsubj
16	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
17	up	up	ADP	_	16 lifted	compound:prt
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 eyes	nmod:poss
19	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 lifted	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 saw	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 saw	cc
22	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 lifted	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 were	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 were	cc
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 behold	punct
26	behold	behold	INTJ	_	29 were	discourse
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 behold	punct
28	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	29 were	expl
29	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 saw	conj
30	camels	camel	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 were	nsubj
31	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 camels	acl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go out	past	Isaac		the eventide	out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	meditate	to-infinitive	Isaac not said here		the field		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	lift up	past	Isaac	Isaac's eyes			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme
4	see	past	Isaac not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	be	past	camels		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	come	gerund	camels not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

וַיֵּצֵ֥א יִצְחָ֛ק לָשׂ֥וּחַ בַּשָּׂדֶ֖ה לִפְנ֣וֹת עָ֑רֶב וַיִּשָּׂ֤א עֵינָיו֙ וַיַּ֔רְא וְהִנֵּ֥ה גְמַלִּ֖ים בָּאִֽים׃

Genesis 24:63: 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:689 of Mova's parse database.

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