Genesis 25:23 · JPS 1917
And the LORD said unto her: Two nations are in thy womb, and two peoples shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger.
Who acts: LORD, Two nations, one people, elder · What happens: say, be, separate, serve · To what, where: womb, two peoples, younger · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Genesis 25:23 · 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 (LORD, Two nations, one people, elder), 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 said | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 LORD | det |
| 3 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 6 her | case |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 womb | punct |
| 8 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 nations | nummod |
| 9 | nations | nation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 womb | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 womb | cop |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 womb | case |
| 12 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 womb | nmod:poss |
| 13 | womb | womb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 separated | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 separated | cc |
| 16 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 peoples | nummod |
| 17 | peoples | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 separated | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 separated | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 separated | aux:pass |
| 20 | separated | separate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 womb | conj |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 bowels | case |
| 22 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 23 bowels | nmod:poss |
| 23 | bowels | bowel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 separated | obl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 stronger | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 stronger | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 people | det |
| 27 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 people | nummod |
| 28 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 stronger | nsubj |
| 29 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 stronger | aux |
| 30 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 31 stronger | cop |
| 31 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 said | conj |
| 32 | than | than | ADP | _ | 35 people | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 people | det |
| 34 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 people | amod |
| 35 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 stronger | obl |
| 36 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 41 serve | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 serve | cc |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 elder | det |
| 39 | elder | elder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 serve | nsubj |
| 40 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 serve | aux |
| 41 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | conj |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 younger | det |
| 43 | younger | younger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 serve | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the LORD | unto wife | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Two nations | thy womb | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | separate | shall · passive | two peoples | from thy bowels | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient from bowel=Co-Patient | ||||
| 4 | is | shall | the one people | than the other people; strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | serve | shall | the elder | the younger | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent younger=Attribute |
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
וַיֹּ֨אמֶר יְהוָ֜ה לָ֗הּ שְׁנֵ֤י גוֹיִם֙ בְּבִטְנֵ֔ךְ וּשְׁנֵ֣י לְאֻמִּ֔ים מִמֵּעַ֖יִךְ יִפָּרֵ֑דוּ וּלְאֹם֙ מִלְאֹ֣ם יֶֽאֱמָ֔ץ וְרַ֖ב יַעֲבֹ֥ד צָעִֽיר׃
Genesis 25:23: 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:719 of Mova's parse database.
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