Genesis 25:21 · JPS 1917
And Isaac entreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren; and the LORD let Himself be entreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
Who acts: Isaac, wife, LORD, Rebekah · What happens: entreat, be, let, conceive · To what, where: LORD, Isaac
This is Genesis 25:21 · 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, wife, LORD, 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 entreated | cc |
| 2 | Isaac | Isaac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 entreated | nsubj |
| 3 | entreated | entreat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 LORD | det |
| 5 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 entreated | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 wife | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 wife | nmod:poss |
| 8 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 entreated | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 barren | punct |
| 10 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 13 barren | mark |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 barren | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 barren | cop |
| 13 | barren | barren | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 entreated | advcl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 let | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 let | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 LORD | det |
| 17 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 let | nsubj |
| 18 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 entreated | conj |
| 19 | Himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 let | obj |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 entreated | aux:pass |
| 21 | entreated | entreat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 let | xcomp |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 entreated | obl:agent |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 conceived | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 conceived | cc |
| 26 | Rebekah | Rebekah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 conceived | nsubj |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 wife | nmod:poss |
| 28 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 Rebekah | appos |
| 29 | conceived | conceive | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 entreated | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 entreated | punct |
Pragmatics
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | entreat | past | Isaac | the LORD | for Isaac's wife | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lord=Recipient | |||
| 2 | is | past | wife | barren property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | let | past | the LORD | Isaac | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | entreat | infinitive · passive | Isaac | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | conceive | past | Rebekah | vn characterize-29.2-1 «NP V how S»: 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
וַיֶּעְתַּ֨ר יִצְחָ֤ק לַֽיהוָה֙ לְנֹ֣כַח אִשְׁתּ֔וֹ כִּ֥י עֲקָרָ֖ה הִ֑וא וַיֵּעָ֤תֶר לוֹ֙ יְהוָ֔ה וַתַּ֖הַר רִבְקָ֥ה אִשְׁתּֽוֹ׃
Genesis 25:21: 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:717 of Mova's parse database.
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