Genesis 26:20 · JPS 1917
And the herdmen of Gerar strove with Isaac's herdmen, saying: 'The water is ours.' And he called the name of the well Esek; because they contended with him.
Who acts: herdmen, water, Isaac, wells · What happens: strive, say, be, call, contend, name · To what, where: ours, name, well · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Genesis 26:20 · 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 (herdmen, water, Isaac, wells), 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 | _ | 6 strove | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 herdmen | det |
| 3 | herdmen | herdmen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 strove | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Gerar | case |
| 5 | Gerar | Gerar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 herdmen | nmod |
| 6 | strove | strive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 herdmen | case |
| 8 | Isaac | Isaac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 herdmen | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 Isaac | case |
| 10 | herdmen | herdmen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 strove | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 saying | punct |
| 12 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 strove | advcl |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 ours | punct |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 ours | punct |
| 15 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 water | det |
| 16 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ours | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 ours | cop |
| 18 | ours | ours | PRON | Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 saying | ccomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 ours | punct |
| 20 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 ours | punct |
| 21 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 called | cc |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 called | nsubj |
| 23 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 strove | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 name | det |
| 25 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 called | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 well | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 well | det |
| 28 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 name | nmod |
| 29 | Esek | Esek | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 name | appos |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 contended | punct |
| 31 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 33 contended | mark |
| 32 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 contended | nsubj |
| 33 | contended | contend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 called | advcl |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 him | case |
| 35 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 contended | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 strove | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none, voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strive | past | the herdmen of Gerar | with Isaac's herdmen | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | the herdmen of Gerar not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | the water | ours | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | call | past | Isaac | the name of the well | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | contend | past | wells = well | with Isaac | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 6 | name | the well | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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
וַיָּרִ֜יבוּ רֹעֵ֣י גְרָ֗ר עִם־רֹעֵ֥י יִצְחָ֛ק לֵאמֹ֖ר לָ֣נוּ הַמָּ֑יִם וַיִּקְרָ֤א שֵֽׁם־הַבְּאֵר֙ עֵ֔שֶׂק כִּ֥י הִֽתְעַשְּׂק֖וּ עִמּֽוֹ׃
Genesis 26:20: 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:753 of Mova's parse database.
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