Genesis 37:15 בְּרֵאשִׁית

Who acts: certain man, Joseph, man · What happens: find, wander, ask, say, seek · To what, where: Joseph, field · Speech: someone speaks in this verse

This is Genesis 37:15 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 — certain man, Joseph, man — and what happens in the verse to Joseph, field, 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.

וַיִּמְצָאֵ֣הוּ אִ֔ישׁ וְהִנֵּ֥ה תֹעֶ֖ה בַּשָּׂדֶ֑ה וַיִּשְׁאָלֵ֧הוּ הָאִ֛ישׁ לֵאמֹ֖ר מַה־תְּבַקֵּֽשׁ׃

And a certain man found him, and, behold, he was wandering in the field. And the man asked him, saying: 'What seekest thou?'

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	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	2 יִּמְצָא	cc	and
2	יִּמְצָא	מָצָא	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	root	root	he
3	ֵ֣הוּ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 יִּמְצָא	obj	found him
4	אִ֔ישׁ	אִישׁ	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	2 יִּמְצָא	nsubj	a man
5	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	7 תֹעֶ֖ה	cc	and
6	הִנֵּ֥ה	הִנֵּה	INTJ	_	7 תֹעֶ֖ה	discourse	there!
7	תֹעֶ֖ה	תָּעָה	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing	2 יִּמְצָא	conj	[he was] wandering
8	בַּ	בְּ	ADP	_	10 שָּׂדֶ֑ה	case	in
9	ה	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	10 שָּׂדֶ֑ה	det	the open
10	שָּׂדֶ֑ה	שָׂדֶה	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	7 תֹעֶ֖ה	obl	country
11	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	12 יִּשְׁאָל	cc	and
12	יִּשְׁאָל	שָׁאַל	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	2 יִּמְצָא	conj	he
13	ֵ֧הוּ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 יִּשְׁאָל	obj	asked him
14	הָ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	15 אִ֛ישׁ	det	the
15	אִ֛ישׁ	אִישׁ	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	12 יִּשְׁאָל	nsubj	man
16	לֵ	לְ	ADP	ExtPos=SCONJ	19 תְּבַקֵּֽשׁ	mark	(cmp)
17	אמֹ֖ר	אָמַר	VERB	HebBinyan=QAL	16 לֵ	fixed
18	מַה־	מָה	PRON	PronType=Int	19 תְּבַקֵּֽשׁ	obj	what?
19	תְּבַקֵּֽשׁ	בָּקַשׁ	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=PIEL Number=Sing Person=2	12 יִּשְׁאָל	ccomp	are you seeking
20	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	19 תְּבַקֵּֽשׁ	punct

Pragmatics

form: wh-question
act: ask
voice: character
speech: a frame and its quote
negation: no
indirect: yes
the frame alone: decl · narrate · none

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	what, whom (A1)
יִּמְצָא he	wayyiqtol · qal	אִישׁ a man	ֵהוּ found him
תֹעֶה [he was] wandering	participle active · qal
יִּשְׁאָל he	wayyiqtol · qal	אִישׁ man	ֵהוּ asked him
אמֹר	infinitive construct · qal	אִישׁ man
תְּבַקֵּֽשׁ are you seeking	yiqtol · piel		מַה־ what?

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

וְאַשְׁכְּחֵהּ גַבְרָא וְהָא תָעֵי בְּחַקְלָא וּשְׁאָלִנֵּהּ גַבְרָא לְמֵימָר מָה אַתְּ בָּעֵי

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.

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:1098.

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