Genesis 31:50 · JPS 1917
If thou shalt afflict my daughters, and if thou shalt take wives beside my daughters, no man being with us; see, God is witness betwixt me and thee.'
Who acts: thou, man, you, God · What happens: afflict, take, be, see · To what, where: daughters, wives, witness · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Genesis 31:50 · 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 (thou, man, you, God), 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 | _ | 4 afflict | mark |
| 2 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 afflict | nsubj |
| 3 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 4 afflict | aux |
| 4 | afflict | afflict | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 see | advcl |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 6 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 afflict | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 take | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 take | cc |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 take | mark |
| 10 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 take | nsubj |
| 11 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 12 take | aux |
| 12 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 afflict | conj |
| 13 | wives | wife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 take | obj |
| 14 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 16 daughters | case |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 16 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 take | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 take | punct |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 man | det |
| 19 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 us | nsubj |
| 20 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 us | cop |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 us | case |
| 22 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 take | advcl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 see | punct |
| 24 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 witness | punct |
| 26 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 witness | nsubj |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 witness | cop |
| 28 | witness | witness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 see | ccomp |
| 29 | betwixt | betwixt | ADP | _ | 30 me | case |
| 30 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 witness | nmod |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 thee | cc |
| 32 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 30 me | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 see | punct |
| 34 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 see | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- other
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=other, voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | afflict a condition, not said to happen | shall | thou | my daughters | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus daughter=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | take a condition, not said to happen | shall | thou | wives | beside my daughters | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument wife=Destination | |||
| 3 | is | gerund | no man | with us | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | see | imperative | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is a | present | God | witness | betwixt me | tree rules |
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־תְּעַנֶּ֣ה אֶת־בְּנֹתַ֗י וְאִם־תִּקַּ֤ח נָשִׁים֙ עַל־בְּנֹתַ֔י אֵ֥ין אִ֖ישׁ עִמָּ֑נוּ רְאֵ֕ה אֱלֹהִ֥ים עֵ֖ד בֵּינִ֥י וּבֵינֶֽךָ׃
Genesis 31:50: 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:993 of Mova's parse database.
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