Genesis 29:18 · JPS 1917
And Jacob loved Rachel; and he said: 'I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.'
Who acts: Jacob, I · What happens: love, say, serve · To what, where: Rachel, thee · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Genesis 29:18 · 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 (Jacob, I), 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 loved | cc |
| 2 | Jacob | Jacob | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 loved | nsubj |
| 3 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Rachel | Rachel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 loved | obj |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 said | cc |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 loved | conj |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 serve | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 serve | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 serve | aux |
| 13 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 14 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 serve | obj |
| 15 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 years | nummod |
| 16 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 serve | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 Rachel | case |
| 18 | Rachel | Rachel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 serve | obl |
| 19 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 21 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 20 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 21 daughter | amod |
| 21 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Rachel | appos |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 loved | punct |
| 23 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 loved | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- promise
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=promise
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | past | Jacob | Rachel | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rachel=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Jacob | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | serve | future | I | thee | year | for Rachel | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent thou=Theme for rachel=Recipient |
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
וַיֶּאֱהַ֥ב יַעֲקֹ֖ב אֶת־רָחֵ֑ל וַיֹּ֗אמֶר אֶֽעֱבָדְךָ֙ שֶׁ֣בַע שָׁנִ֔ים בְּרָחֵ֥ל בִּתְּךָ֖ הַקְּטַנָּֽה׃
Genesis 29:18: 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:869 of Mova's parse database.
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