Genesis 29:16 · JPS 1917
Now Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.
Who acts: Laban, name · What happens: have, be, name · To what, where: two daughters, Leah, Rachel, younger
This is Genesis 29:16 · 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 (Laban, name), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 had | advmod |
| 2 | Laban | Laban | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 daughters | nummod |
| 5 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 had | obj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 Leah | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 name | det |
| 8 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Leah | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 elder | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 elder | det |
| 11 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 name | nmod |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 Leah | cop |
| 13 | Leah | Leah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 had | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Rachel | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 Rachel | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 name | det |
| 17 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Rachel | nsubj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 younger | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 younger | det |
| 20 | younger | younger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 name | nmod |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 Rachel | cop |
| 22 | Rachel | Rachel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Leah | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Laban | two daughters | now | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | |||
| 2 | is a | past | the name of the elder | Leah and Rachel | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | the name of the younger | Rachel | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | name | the younger | 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
וּלְלָבָ֖ן שְׁתֵּ֣י בָנ֑וֹת שֵׁ֤ם הַגְּדֹלָה֙ לֵאָ֔ה וְשֵׁ֥ם הַקְּטַנָּ֖ה רָחֵֽל׃
Genesis 29:16: 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:867 of Mova's parse database.
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