Genesis 4:8 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

And it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.

Who acts: firstlings, Cain · What happens: come, pass, be, rise up, slay · To what, where: countenance, field, Abel, Cain

This is Genesis 4:8 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 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 (firstlings, Cain), 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 came	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	expl
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 pass	mark
5	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 came	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 field	punct
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 field	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 field	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 field	cop
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 field	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 field	det
12	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 rose	punct
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 rose	mark
15	Cain	Cain	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 rose	nsubj
16	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	csubj
17	up	up	ADP	_	16 rose	compound:prt
18	against	against	ADP	_	19 Abel	case
19	Abel	Abel	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 rose	obl
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 brother	nmod:poss
21	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 Abel	appos
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 slew	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 slew	cc
24	slew	slay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 rose	conj
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 slew	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	come	past		countenance		tree rules
2	pass	to-infinitive				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	firstlings = firstling		the field	tree rules
4	rise up	past	Cain		Abel	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent against abel=Location
5	slay	past	Cain not said here	Cain		vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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

וַיֹּ֥אמֶר קַ֖יִן אֶל־הֶ֣בֶל אָחִ֑יו וַֽיְהִי֙ בִּהְיוֹתָ֣ם בַּשָּׂדֶ֔ה וַיָּ֥קָם קַ֛יִן אֶל־הֶ֥בֶל אָחִ֖יו וַיַּהַרְגֵֽהוּ׃

Genesis 4:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →

This verse in JPS 1917:

And Cain spoke unto Abel his brother.
And it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.

Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:GEN:97 of Mova's parse database.

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