surface_form: am

tense: present

number: sg

notes: Suppletive form. Primary copula for I AM (cf. Exodus 3:14 / John 8:58).


surface_form: is

notes: Used in John 1:1: 'the Word was God' — past tense 'was' is en:be:past:3sg.


surface_form: was

tense: past

notes: John 1:1 — 'In the beginning was the Word.'


surface_form: light

number: uncountable

notes: Mass noun; no plural in primary sense.


surface_form: beginning

case: common

notes: John 1:1: 'In the beginning' — en arche / bereshit.