Genesis 25:22 · JPS 1917
And the children struggled together within her; and she said: 'If it be so, wherefore do I live?' And she went to inquire of the LORD.
Who acts: children, wife, Aramean, I · What happens: struggle, say, be, live, go, inquire · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Genesis 25:22 · 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 (children, wife, Aramean, 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 struggled | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 children | det |
| 3 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 struggled | nsubj |
| 4 | struggled | struggle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | together | together | ADV | _ | 4 struggled | advmod |
| 6 | within | within | ADP | _ | 7 her | case |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 struggled | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 struggled | conj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 live | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 live | punct |
| 14 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 so | mark |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 so | nsubj |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 so | cop |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 live | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 so | punct |
| 19 | wherefore | wherefore | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 live | advmod |
| 20 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 live | aux |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 live | nsubj |
| 22 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 22 live | punct |
| 24 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 live | punct |
| 25 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 went | cc |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 went | nsubj |
| 27 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 struggled | conj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 inquire | mark |
| 29 | inquire | inquire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 went | advcl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 LORD | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 LORD | det |
| 32 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 inquire | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 struggled | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- wh-question
- act
- ask
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- indirect
- yes
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | struggle | past | the children | within wife; together property | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | wife | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is a condition, not said to happen | infinitive | Aramean | so property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | live | present · do-support | I | wherefore property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | go | past | wife | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | inquire speech: other | to-infinitive | wife not said here | of the LORD | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of lord=Recipient |
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
וַיִּתְרֹֽצֲצ֤וּ הַבָּנִים֙ בְּקִרְבָּ֔הּ וַתֹּ֣אמֶר אִם־כֵּ֔ן לָ֥מָּה זֶּ֖ה אָנֹ֑כִי וַתֵּ֖לֶךְ לִדְרֹ֥שׁ אֶת־יְהוָֽה׃
Genesis 25:22: 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:718 of Mova's parse database.
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