Genesis 29:13 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
And it came to pass, when Laban heard the tidings of Jacob his sister's son, that he ran to meet him, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house.
Who acts: Laban, Jacob · What happens: come, pass, hear, run, meet, embrace · To what, where: well, tidings, Jacob, house
This is Genesis 29:13 · 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 (Laban, Jacob), 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 | expl |
| 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 | _ | 9 heard | punct |
| 7 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 9 heard | mark |
| 8 | Laban | Laban | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 heard | nsubj |
| 9 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 tidings | det |
| 11 | tidings | tiding | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 heard | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Jacob | case |
| 13 | Jacob | Jacob | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 tidings | nmod |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 sister | nmod:poss |
| 15 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 son | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 sister | case |
| 17 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Jacob | appos |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 ran | punct |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 ran | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 ran | nsubj |
| 21 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | ccomp |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 meet | mark |
| 23 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 ran | advcl |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 meet | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 embraced | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 embraced | cc |
| 27 | embraced | embrace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 ran | conj |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 embraced | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 kissed | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 kissed | cc |
| 31 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 ran | conj |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 kissed | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 brought | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 brought | cc |
| 35 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 ran | conj |
| 36 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 brought | obj |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 house | case |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 house | nmod:poss |
| 39 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 brought | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
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- act
- narrate
- voice
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- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | well | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | pass | to-infinitive | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | hear | past | Laban | the tidings of Jacob | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tiding=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | run | past | Jacob | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | meet | to-infinitive | Jacob not said here | Jacob | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 6 | embrace | past | Jacob not said here | Jacob | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 7 | kiss | past | Jacob not said here | Jacob | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 8 | bring | past | Jacob not said here | Jacob | Jacob's house | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to house=Destination |
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
וַיְהִי֩ כִשְׁמֹ֨עַ לָבָ֜ן אֶת־שֵׁ֣מַע ׀ יַעֲקֹ֣ב בֶּן־אֲחֹת֗וֹ וַיָּ֤רָץ לִקְרָאתוֹ֙ וַיְחַבֶּק־לוֹ֙ וַיְנַשֶּׁק־ל֔וֹ וַיְבִיאֵ֖הוּ אֶל־בֵּית֑וֹ וַיְסַפֵּ֣ר לְלָבָ֔ן אֵ֥ת כָּל־הַדְּבָרִ֖ים הָאֵֽלֶּה׃
Genesis 29:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- And it came to pass, when Laban heard the tidings of Jacob his sister's son, that he ran to meet him, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house.
- And he told Laban all these things.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:GEN:863 of Mova's parse database.
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