Genesis 27:46 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2
If Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me?'
Who acts: Jacob, life · What happens: take, do · To what, where: wife, good, me
This is Genesis 27:46 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 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 (Jacob, life), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 take | mark |
| 2 | Jacob | Jacob | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 take | nsubj |
| 3 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 do | advcl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 wife | det |
| 5 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 take | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 daughters | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 daughters | det |
| 8 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 wife | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Heth | case |
| 10 | Heth | Heth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 daughters | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 these | punct |
| 12 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 14 these | case |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 such | fixed |
| 14 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 daughters | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 daughters | punct |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 daughters | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 daughters | det |
| 18 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 these | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 land | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 land | det |
| 21 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 daughters | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 do | punct |
| 23 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 24 good | det |
| 24 | good | good | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 do | obj |
| 25 | shall | shall | AUX | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 do | aux |
| 26 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 life | nmod:poss |
| 27 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 do | nsubj |
| 28 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 29 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 do | iobj |
| 30 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 28 do | punct |
| 31 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 28 do | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- ask
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- indirect
- yes
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take a condition, not said to happen | present | Jacob | a wife of the daughters of Heth such these | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument wife=Destination | ||||
| 2 | do | shall | my life | what good | me | 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
וַתֹּ֤אמֶר רִבְקָה֙ אֶל־יִצְחָ֔ק קַ֣צְתִּי בְחַיַּ֔י מִפְּנֵ֖י בְּנ֣וֹת חֵ֑ת אִם־לֹקֵ֣חַ יַ֠עֲקֹב אִשָּׁ֨ה מִבְּנֽוֹת־חֵ֤ת כָּאֵ֙לֶּה֙ מִבְּנ֣וֹת הָאָ֔רֶץ לָ֥מָּה לִּ֖י חַיִּֽים׃
Genesis 27:46: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- And Rebekah said to Isaac: 'I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth.
- If Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me?'
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:GEN:825 of Mova's parse database.
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