Genesis 29:26 · JPS 1917
And Laban said: 'It is not so done in our place, to give the younger before the first-born.
Who acts: Laban · What happens: say, not do, give · To what, where: handmaid, place, younger · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Genesis 29:26 · 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), 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 | Laban | Laban | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 done | punct |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 done | punct |
| 6 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 done | expl |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 done | aux:pass |
| 8 | not | not | ADV | Polarity=Neg | 10 done | advmod |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 done | advmod |
| 10 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 said | ccomp |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 place | case |
| 12 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 place | nmod:poss |
| 13 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 done | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 give | punct |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 give | mark |
| 16 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 done | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 younger | det |
| 18 | younger | young | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 give | obj |
| 19 | before | before | ADP | _ | 23 born | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 born | det |
| 21 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 23 born | amod |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 first | punct |
| 23 | born | bear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 give | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- disagree
- voice
- character
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Laban | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not do | present · passive | handmaid | our place | vn act-114-1 «NP V» | ||||
| 3 | give | to-infinitive | the younger | before the first born | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent young=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
וַיֹּ֣אמֶר לָבָ֔ן לֹא־יֵעָשֶׂ֥ה כֵ֖ן בִּמְקוֹמֵ֑נוּ לָתֵ֥ת הַצְּעִירָ֖ה לִפְנֵ֥י הַבְּכִירָֽה׃
Genesis 29:26: 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:877 of Mova's parse database.
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