Genesis 30:38 · JPS 1917

And he set the rods which he had peeled over against the flocks in the gutters in the watering-troughs where the flocks came to drink; and they conceived when they came to drink.

Who acts: Jacob, flocks, rods · What happens: set, peel over, come, drink, conceive · To what, where: rods, gutters

This is Genesis 30:38 · 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, flocks, rods), 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 set	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 set	nsubj
3	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 rods	det
5	rods	rod	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 set	obj
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 peeled	obj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 peeled	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 peeled	aux
9	peeled	peel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 rods	acl:relcl
10	over	over	ADP	_	9 peeled	compound:prt
11	against	against	ADP	_	13 flocks	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 flocks	det
13	flocks	flock	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 set	obl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 gutters	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 gutters	det
16	gutters	gutter	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 set	obl
17	in	in	ADP	_	21 troughs	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 troughs	det
19	watering	watering	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 troughs	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 watering	punct
21	troughs	trough	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 gutters	nmod
22	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	25 came	advmod
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 flocks	det
24	flocks	flock	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 came	nsubj
25	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 troughs	acl:relcl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 drink	mark
27	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 came	xcomp
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 conceived	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 conceived	cc
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 conceived	nsubj
31	conceived	conceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 set	conj
32	when	when	ADV	PronType=Rel	34 came	advmod
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 came	nsubj
34	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 conceived	advcl
35	to	to	PART	_	36 drink	mark
36	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 came	xcomp
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 set	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	set	past	Jacob	the rods	the gutters in the watering troughs	against the flocks	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent rod=Theme against flock=Destination
2	peel over	past · perfect	Jacob	the rods			vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Source
3	come	past	the flocks				tree rules
4	drink	to-infinitive	the flocks not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	conceive	past	rods = rod				vn characterize-29.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
6	come	past	rods = rod				tree rules
7	drink	to-infinitive	rods = rod not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

וַיַּצֵּ֗ג אֶת־הַמַּקְלוֹת֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר פִּצֵּ֔ל בָּרֳהָטִ֖ים בְּשִֽׁקֲת֣וֹת הַמָּ֑יִם אֲשֶׁר֩ תָּבֹ֨אןָ הַצֹּ֤אן לִשְׁתּוֹת֙ לְנֹ֣כַח הַצֹּ֔אן וַיֵּחַ֖מְנָה בְּבֹאָ֥ן לִשְׁתּֽוֹת׃

Genesis 30:38: 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:928 of Mova's parse database.

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