Genesis 31:19 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

Now Laban was gone to shear his sheep.

Who acts: Laban · What happens: gone, shear · To what, where: sheep

This is Genesis 31:19 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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	Now	now	ADV	_	4 gone	advmod
2	Laban	Laban	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 gone	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	aux
4	gone	gone	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 shear	mark
6	shear	shear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 gone	advcl
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 sheep	nmod:poss
8	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shear	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gone	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gone	past · passive	Laban				now		tree rules
2	shear	to-infinitive	Laban not said here	Laban's sheep					vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Agent sheep=Initial_Location

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

וְלָבָ֣ן הָלַ֔ךְ לִגְזֹ֖ז אֶת־צֹאנ֑וֹ וַתִּגְנֹ֣ב רָחֵ֔ל אֶת־הַתְּרָפִ֖ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר לְאָבִֽיהָ׃

Genesis 31:19: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →

This verse in JPS 1917:

Now Laban was gone to shear his sheep.
And Rachel stole the teraphim that were her father's.

Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:GEN:954 of Mova's parse database.

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