Genesis 30:31 · JPS 1917
And he said: 'What shall I give thee?' And Jacob said: 'Thou shalt not give me aught; if thou wilt do this thing for me, I will again feed thy flock and keep it.
Who acts: LORD, I, Jacob, Thou · What happens: say, give, not give, do, feed, keep · To what, where: thee, aught, me, thing, flock · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Genesis 30:31 · 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 (LORD, I, Jacob, Thou), 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 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 give | punct |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 give | punct |
| 6 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 give | obj |
| 7 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 give | aux |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 give | nsubj |
| 9 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 10 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 9 give | iobj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 give | punct |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 give | punct |
| 13 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 said | cc |
| 14 | Jacob | Jacob | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 give | punct |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 give | punct |
| 18 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 21 give | nsubj |
| 19 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 21 give | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 give | advmod |
| 21 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | ccomp |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 give | iobj |
| 23 | aught | aught | PRON | PronType=Ind | 21 give | obj |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 feed | punct |
| 25 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 28 do | mark |
| 26 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 28 do | nsubj |
| 27 | wilt | will | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 28 do | aux |
| 28 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 feed | advcl |
| 29 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 thing | det |
| 30 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 do | obj |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 me | case |
| 32 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 do | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 do | punct |
| 34 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 feed | nsubj |
| 35 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 feed | aux |
| 36 | again | again | ADV | _ | 37 feed | advmod |
| 37 | feed | feed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | parataxis |
| 38 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 39 flock | nmod:poss |
| 39 | flock | flock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 feed | obj |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 keep | cc |
| 41 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 feed | conj |
| 42 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 keep | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- offer
- 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 | LORD | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | give | shall | I | thee | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient what=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Jacob | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | not give | shall | Thou | aught | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient aught=Theme | |||
| 5 | do a condition, not said to happen | future | thou | this thing | for me | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | |||
| 6 | feed | future | I | thy flock | again | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flock=Recipient | |||
| 7 | keep | infinitive | I not said here | flock | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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
וַיֹּ֖אמֶר מָ֣ה אֶתֶּן־לָ֑ךְ וַיֹּ֤אמֶר יַעֲקֹב֙ לֹא־תִתֶּן־לִ֣י מְא֔וּמָה אִם־תַּֽעֲשֶׂה־לִּי֙ הַדָּבָ֣ר הַזֶּ֔ה אָשׁ֛וּבָה אֶרְעֶ֥ה צֹֽאנְךָ֖ אֶשְׁמֹֽר׃
Genesis 30:31: 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:920 of Mova's parse database.
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