Genesis 31:8 · JPS 1917

If he said thus: The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the flock bore speckled; and if he said thus: The streaked shall be thy wages; then bore all the flock streaked.

Who acts: God, speckled, flock, streaked · What happens: say, be, bear, speckle, streak · To what, where: wages, flock · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Genesis 31:8 · 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 (God, speckled, flock, streaked), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 said	mark
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	thus	thus	ADV	_	3 said	advmod
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
6	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 speckled	det
7	speckled	speckle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wages	nsubj
8	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 wages	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 wages	cop
10	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	11 wages	nmod:poss
11	wages	wage	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 said	ccomp
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 bore	punct
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 bore	advmod
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 flock	det:predet
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 flock	det
16	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bore	nsubj
17	bore	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	parataxis
18	speckled	speckle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 bore	xcomp
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 wages	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 wages	cc
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 said	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 said	nsubj
23	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 wages	advcl
24	thus	thus	ADV	_	23 said	advmod
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	31 wages	punct
26	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 streaked	det
27	streaked	streak	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 wages	nsubj
28	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 wages	aux
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 wages	cop
30	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	31 wages	nmod:poss
31	wages	wage	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 said	ccomp
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 bore	punct
33	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	34 bore	advmod
34	bore	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 wages	parataxis
35	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	37 flock	det:predet
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 flock	det
37	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 bore	obj
38	streaked	streak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 bore	xcomp
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	God			thus property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	shall	the speckled	thy wages			tree rules
3	bear	past	all flock		then		vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	speckle	participle	all flock not said here				vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
5	say speech: assert	past	God			thus property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	is a	shall	the streaked	thy wages			tree rules
7	bear	past		all flock	then		tree rules
8	streak	participle					vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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

אִם־כֹּ֣ה יֹאמַ֗ר נְקֻדִּים֙ יִהְיֶ֣ה שְׂכָרֶ֔ךָ וְיָלְד֥וּ כָל־הַצֹּ֖אן נְקֻדִּ֑ים וְאִם־כֹּ֣ה יֹאמַ֗ר עֲקֻדִּים֙ יִהְיֶ֣ה שְׂכָרֶ֔ךָ וְיָלְד֥וּ כָל־הַצֹּ֖אן עֲקֻדִּֽים׃

Genesis 31:8: 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:941 of Mova's parse database.

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