Genesis 26:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham.
Who acts: famine, first famine · What happens: be
This is Genesis 26:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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 (famine, first famine), 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 was | cc |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 was | expl |
| 3 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 famine | det |
| 5 | famine | famine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 was | nsubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 land | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 land | det |
| 8 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 famine | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 famine | punct |
| 10 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 13 famine | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 famine | det |
| 12 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 famine | amod |
| 13 | famine | famine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 famine | nmod |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 days | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 days | cop |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 days | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 days | det |
| 18 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 famine | acl:relcl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Abraham | case |
| 20 | Abraham | Abraham | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 days | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 was | 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 | be | past | a famine in the land beside the first famine | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the first famine | in the days | of Abraham | tree rules |
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
וַיְהִ֤י רָעָב֙ בָּאָ֔רֶץ מִלְּבַד֙ הָרָעָ֣ב הָרִאשׁ֔וֹן אֲשֶׁ֥ר הָיָ֖ה בִּימֵ֣י אַבְרָהָ֑ם וַיֵּ֧לֶךְ יִצְחָ֛ק אֶל־אֲבִימֶּ֥לֶךְמֶֽלֶךְ־פְּלִשְׁתִּ֖ים גְּרָֽרָה׃
Genesis 26:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham.
- And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:GEN:733 of Mova's parse database.
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