Genesis 31:36 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2
And Jacob answered and said to Laban: 'What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast hotly pursued after me?
Who acts: Jacob, trespass, thou · What happens: answer, say, be, pursue · To what, where: Laban, trespass, sin · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Genesis 31:36 · 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 (Jacob, trespass, 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 answered | cc |
| 2 | Jacob | Jacob | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 said | cc |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 answered | conj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Laban | case |
| 7 | Laban | Laban | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 trespass | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 trespass | punct |
| 10 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 trespass | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 trespass | cop |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 trespass | nmod:poss |
| 13 | trespass | trespass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | ccomp |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 trespass | punct |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 sin | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 sin | cop |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 sin | nmod:poss |
| 18 | sin | sin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 trespass | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 pursued | punct |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 pursued | mark |
| 21 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 24 pursued | nsubj |
| 22 | hast | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 pursued | aux |
| 23 | hotly | hotly | ADV | _ | 24 pursued | advmod |
| 24 | pursued | pursue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 sin | advcl |
| 25 | after | after | ADP | _ | 26 me | case |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 pursued | obl |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- wh-question
- act
- ask
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Jacob | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Jacob not said here | Laban | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to laban=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | my trespass | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | my trespass | my sin | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | pursue | present · perfect | thou | after me | hotly property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent after i=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
וַיִּ֥חַר לְיַעֲקֹ֖ב וַיָּ֣רֶב בְּלָבָ֑ן וַיַּ֤עַן יַעֲקֹב֙ וַיֹּ֣אמֶר לְלָבָ֔ן מַה־פִּשְׁעִי֙ מַ֣ה חַטָּאתִ֔י כִּ֥י דָלַ֖קְתָּ אַחֲרָֽי׃
Genesis 31:36: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- And Jacob was wroth, and strove with Laban.
- And Jacob answered and said to Laban: 'What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast hotly pursued after me?
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:GEN:976 of Mova's parse database.
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