Genesis 26:8 · JPS 1917
And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was sporting with Rebekah his wife.
Who acts: place, Isaac, Abimelech king · What happens: come, pass, be, look out, see, sport · To what, where: window
This is Genesis 26:8 · 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 (place, Isaac, Abimelech king), 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 came | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 pass | mark |
| 5 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 came | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 there | punct |
| 7 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 11 there | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 there | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 there | aux |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 there | cop |
| 11 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 looked | advcl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 time | det |
| 13 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 time | amod |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 there | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 looked | punct |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 looked | mark |
| 17 | Abimelech | Abimelech | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 king | flat |
| 18 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 looked | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Philistines | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Philistines | det |
| 21 | Philistines | Philistines | PROPN | Number=Plur | 18 king | nmod |
| 22 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | csubj |
| 23 | out | out | ADV | _ | 22 looked | advmod |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 window | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 window | det |
| 26 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 looked | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 saw | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 saw | cc |
| 29 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 looked | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 sporting | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 sporting | cc |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 behold | punct |
| 33 | behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 37 sporting | discourse |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 behold | punct |
| 35 | Isaac | Isaac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 sporting | nsubj |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 sporting | aux |
| 37 | sporting | sport | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 looked | conj |
| 38 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 Rebekah | case |
| 39 | Rebekah | Rebekah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 sporting | obl |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 wife | nmod:poss |
| 41 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 Rebekah | appos |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
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- statement
- act
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- voice
- narrator
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- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | place | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | pass | to-infinitive | place not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | past · perfect | Isaac | time | there property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | look out | past | Abimelech king of the Philistines | a window | out property | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | see | past | Abimelech king of the Philistines not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | sport | past · progressive | Isaac | with Rebekah | 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
וַיְהִ֗י כִּ֣י אָֽרְכוּ־ל֥וֹ שָׁם֙ הַיָּמִ֔ים וַיַּשְׁקֵ֗ף אֲבִימֶ֙לֶךְ֙ מֶ֣לֶךְ פְּלִשְׁתִּ֔ים בְּעַ֖ד הַֽחַלּ֑וֹן וַיַּ֗רְא וְהִנֵּ֤ה יִצְחָק֙ מְצַחֵ֔ק אֵ֖ת רִבְקָ֥ה אִשְׁתּֽוֹ׃
Genesis 26:8: 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:741 of Mova's parse database.
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