Genesis 27:20 · JPS 1917
And Isaac said unto his son: 'How is it that thou hast found it so quickly, my son?' And he said: 'Because the LORD thy God sent me good speed.'
Who acts: Isaac, it, thou, LORD · What happens: say, be, find, send · To what, where: soul, good speed, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Genesis 27:20 · 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 (Isaac, it, thou, LORD), 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 said | cc |
| 2 | Isaac | Isaac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 6 son | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 son | nmod:poss |
| 6 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 How | punct |
| 9 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 said | advmod |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 How | cop |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 How | nsubj |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 found | mark |
| 13 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 found | nsubj |
| 14 | hast | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 found | aux |
| 15 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 How | csubj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 found | obj |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 quickly | advmod |
| 18 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 15 found | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 son | punct |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 son | nmod:poss |
| 21 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 found | vocative |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 21 son | punct |
| 23 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 24 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 said | cc |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 said | nsubj |
| 26 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 27 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 26 said | punct |
| 28 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 34 sent | punct |
| 29 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 34 sent | mark |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 LORD | det |
| 31 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 sent | nsubj |
| 32 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 33 God | nmod:poss |
| 33 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 LORD | appos |
| 34 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 said | advcl |
| 35 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 sent | iobj |
| 36 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 speed | amod |
| 37 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 sent | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 34 sent | punct |
| 39 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- wh-question
- act
- ask
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Isaac | unto Isaac's son | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | present | it | how property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | find | present · perfect | thou | soul | my son vocative; quickly property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Isaac | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | send | past | the LORD | good speed | me | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination speed=Theme |
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
וַיֹּ֤אמֶר יִצְחָק֙ אֶל־בְּנ֔וֹ מַה־זֶּ֛ה מִהַ֥רְתָּ לִמְצֹ֖א בְּנִ֑י וַיֹּ֕אמֶר כִּ֥י הִקְרָ֛ה יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ לְפָנָֽי׃
Genesis 27:20: 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:794 of Mova's parse database.
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