Genesis 31:46 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
And Jacob said unto his brethren: 'Gather stones'; and they took stones, and made a heap.
Who acts: Jacob, brethren · What happens: say, gather, take, make · To what, where: stones, heap · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Genesis 31:46 · 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 (Jacob, brethren), 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 said | cc |
| 2 | Jacob | Jacob | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 6 brethren | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 brethren | nmod:poss |
| 6 | brethren | brethren | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 said | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 Gather | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 Gather | punct |
| 9 | Gather | gather | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | ccomp |
| 10 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 Gather | obj |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 Gather | punct |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 took | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 took | cc |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 took | nsubj |
| 15 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 16 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 took | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 made | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 made | cc |
| 19 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 took | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 heap | det |
| 21 | heap | heap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 made | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Jacob | unto Jacob's brethren | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | gather | infinitive | stones | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme | |||||
| 3 | take | past | brethren | stones | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme | ||||
| 4 | make | past | brethren not said here | a heap | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset heap=Product |
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
וַיֹּ֨אמֶר יַעֲקֹ֤ב לְאֶחָיו֙ לִקְט֣וּ אֲבָנִ֔ים וַיִּקְח֥וּ אֲבָנִ֖ים וַיַּֽעֲשׂוּ־גָ֑ל וַיֹּ֥אכְלוּ שָׁ֖ם עַל־הַגָּֽל׃
Genesis 31:46: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- And Jacob said unto his brethren: 'Gather stones'; and they took stones, and made a heap.
- And they did eat there by the heap.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:GEN:988 of Mova's parse database.
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