Genesis 39:20 בְּרֵאשִׁית

Who acts: master · What happens: take, put, bind, be · To what, where: Joseph, prison, prisoners

This is Genesis 39:20 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 — master — and what happens in the verse to Joseph, prison, prisoners, 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.

וַיִּקַּח֩ אֲדֹנֵ֨י יוֹסֵ֜ף אֹת֗וֹ וַֽיִּתְּנֵ֙הוּ֙ אֶל־בֵּ֣ית הַסֹּ֔הַר מְק֕וֹם אֲשֶׁר־אֲסִירֵ֥י הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ אֲסוּרִ֑ים וַֽיְהִי־שָׁ֖ם בְּבֵ֥ית הַסֹּֽהַר׃

And Joseph's master took him, and put him into the prison, the place where the king's prisoners were bound; and he was there in the prison.

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 יִּקַּח֩	cc	and
2	יִּקַּח֩	לָקַח	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	root	root	he took
3	אֲדֹנֵ֨י	אָדוֹן	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	2 יִּקַּח֩	nsubj	the master(s)
4	יוֹסֵ֜ף	יוֹסֵף	PROPN	_	3 אֲדֹנֵ֨י	compound:smixut	of Joseph
5	אֹת	אֵת	ADP	_	6 ֗וֹ	case
6	֗וֹ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 יִּקַּח֩	obj	him
7	וַֽ	וְ	CCONJ	_	8 יִּתְּנ	cc	and
8	יִּתְּנ	נָתַן	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	2 יִּקַּח֩	conj	he
9	ֵ֙הוּ֙	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 יִּתְּנ	obj	put him
10	אֶל־	אֶל	ADP	_	11 בֵּ֣ית	case	into
11	בֵּ֣ית	בַּיִת	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	8 יִּתְּנ	obl	the house
12	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	13 סֹּ֔הַר	det	of
13	סֹּ֔הַר	סֹהַר	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	11 בֵּ֣ית	compound:smixut	the prison
14	מְק֕וֹם	מָקוֹם	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	11 בֵּ֣ית	appos	the place
15	אֲשֶׁר־	אֲשֶׁר	SCONJ	_	19 אֲסוּרִ֑ים	mark	(of) where
16	אֲסִירֵ֥י	אָסִיר	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	19 אֲסוּרִ֑ים	nsubj	the prisoners
17	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	18 מֶּ֖לֶךְ	det	of
18	מֶּ֖לֶךְ	מֶלֶךְ	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	16 אֲסִירֵ֥י	compound:smixut	the king
19	אֲסוּרִ֑ים	אָסַר	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur	14 מְק֕וֹם	acl:relcl	[were] imprisoned
20	וַֽ	וְ	CCONJ	_	21 יְהִי־	cc	and
21	יְהִי־	הָיָה	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	2 יִּקַּח֩	conj	he was
22	שָׁ֖ם	שָׁם	ADV	_	21 יְהִי־	advmod	there
23	בְּ	בְּ	ADP	_	24 בֵ֥ית	case	in
24	בֵ֥ית	בַּיִת	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	21 יְהִי־	obl	the house
25	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	26 סֹּֽהַר	det	of
26	סֹּֽהַר	סֹהַר	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	24 בֵ֥ית	compound:smixut	the prison
27	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	26 סֹּֽהַר	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
speech: narration
negation: no

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	what, whom (A1)
יִּקַּח he took	wayyiqtol · qal	אֲדֹנֵי the master(s)	וֹ him
יִּתְּנ he	wayyiqtol · qal	אֲדֹנֵי the master(s)	ֵהוּ put him
אֲסוּרִים [were] imprisoned	participle passive · qal		אֲסִירֵי the prisoners
יְהִי־ he was	wayyiqtol · qal	יוֹסֵף of Joseph

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

וּנְסִיב רִבּוֹנֵהּ דְּיוֹסֵף יָתֵהּ וִיהָבֵיה לְבֵית אֲסִירֵי אֲתַר דִּי אֲסִירֵי מַלְכָּא אֲסִירִין וַהֲוָה תַמָּן בְּבֵית אֲסִירֵי

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 Joseph's master took him, and put him into the prison, the place where the king's prisoners were bound; and he was there in the prison.

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:1169.

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