Genesis 12:12 בְּרֵאשִׁית

Who acts: famine, Egyptians, This · What happens: come, pass, see, say, be, kill · To what, where: thee, wife, me · Speech: someone speaks in this verse

This is Genesis 12:12 from Mova's open Bible corpus, the Tanakh in three languages (The Torah). The page gives the verse in Hebrew as the Westminster Leningrad Codex has it, its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, built from MACULA Hebrew — and its pragmatics: who acts — famine, Egyptians, This — and what happens in the verse to thee, wife, me, read clause by clause by Mova's frames. Beside it stand the Aramaic of Targum Onkelos and the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, each English sentence with a tree of its own. It is one of the 50 chapters of Genesis on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between.

וְהָיָ֗ה כִּֽי־יִרְא֤וּ אֹתָךְ֙ הַמִּצְרִ֔ים וְאָמְר֖וּ אִשְׁתּ֣וֹ זֹ֑את וְהָרְג֥וּ אֹתִ֖י וְאֹתָ֥ךְ יְחַיּֽוּ׃

And it will come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see thee, that they will say: This is his wife; and they will kill me, but thee they will keep alive.

The tree

Right to left, as the Hebrew is read; a prefix or suffix is a word of its own, and a line under the words joins those written as one. Under each word its part of speech and MACULA's English gloss.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation	gloss
1	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	2 הָיָ֗ה	cc	and
2	הָיָ֗ה	הָיָה	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	root	root	it will be
3	כִּֽי־	כִּי	SCONJ	_	4 יִרְא֤וּ	mark	(dm)
4	יִרְא֤וּ	רָאָה	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=3	2 הָיָ֗ה	advcl	they will see
5	אֹת	אֵת	ADP	_	6 ָךְ֙	case
6	ָךְ֙	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 יִרְא֤וּ	obj	you
7	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	8 מִּצְרִ֔ים	det	the
8	מִּצְרִ֔ים	מִצְרִי	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	4 יִרְא֤וּ	nsubj	Egyptians
9	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	10 אָמְר֖וּ	cc	and
10	אָמְר֖וּ	אָמַר	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=3	2 הָיָ֗ה	conj	they will say
11	אִשְׁתּ	אִשָּׁה	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	10 אָמְר֖וּ	ccomp	wife
12	֣וֹ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 אִשְׁתּ	nmod:poss	[is] his
13	זֹ֑את	זֹאת	PRON	Gender=Fem Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 אִשְׁתּ	nsubj	this
14	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	15 הָרְג֥וּ	cc	and
15	הָרְג֥וּ	הָרַג	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=3	11 אִשְׁתּ	conj	they will kill
16	אֹת	אֵת	ADP	_	17 ִ֖י	case
17	ִ֖י	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Com Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 הָרְג֥וּ	obj	me
18	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	21 יְחַיּֽוּ	cc	and
19	אֹת	אֵת	ADP	_	20 ָ֥ךְ	case
20	ָ֥ךְ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 יְחַיּֽוּ	obj	you
21	יְחַיּֽוּ	חָיָה	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=PIEL Number=Plur Person=3	11 אִשְׁתּ	conj	they will let live
22	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	21 יְחַיּֽוּ	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
speech: a frame and its quote
negation: no
the frame alone: decl · assert · none

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	what, whom (A1)
יִרְאוּ they will see	yiqtol · qal	מִּצְרִים Egyptians	ָךְ you
אָמְרוּ they will say	qatal · qal	מִּצְרִים Egyptians
הָרְגוּ they will kill	qatal · qal	מִּצְרִים Egyptians	ִי me
יְחַיּֽוּ they will let live	yiqtol · piel	מִּצְרִים Egyptians	ָךְ you

MACULA's semantic frames: for each verb the head word of each participant. A0 is the one who acts, A1 what the act is done to or is about, A2 a further participant; AA, with a causative verb, the one who makes it happen.

Targum Onkelos

וִיהֵי כַּד (נ''י אֲרֵי) יֶחֱזוּן יָתִיךְ מִצְרָאֵי וְיֵימְרוּן אִתְּתֵהּ דָּא וְיִקְטְלוּן יָתִי וְיָתִיךְ יְקַיְמוּן

The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet.

English, JPS 1917

Each sentence on its own page, with its tree and pragmatics. A sentence that runs on into the next verse is listed under the verse it begins in.

And it will come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see thee, that they will say: This is his wife; and they will kill me, but thee they will keep alive.

Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex, public domain. Tree, glosses and frames: MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets, available at github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew, CC BY 4.0; converted to Universal Dependencies by Mova (words in text order, a prefix its own word). Speech act: Mova's rules on the MACULA words (macula prag). Targum: Onkelos (Torat Emet), Jonathan and the Writings (Mikraot Gedolot), from Sefaria, public domain.

English: JPS 1917, public domain; trees and speech acts by Mova's cycle, frames by Mova's reader (Elamur Cosmic License).

Hebrew sentence wlc:GEN:310.

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