Genesis 42:2 בְּרֵאשִׁית

Who acts: corn, I, you, we · What happens: say, hear, get down, buy, live, not die · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks in this verse

This is Genesis 42:2 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 — corn, I, you, we — and what happens in the verse to you, 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.

וַיֹּ֕אמֶר הִנֵּ֣ה שָׁמַ֔עְתִּי כִּ֥י יֶשׁ־שֶׁ֖בֶר בְּמִצְרָ֑יִם רְדוּ־שָׁ֙מָּה֙ וְשִׁבְרוּ־לָ֣נוּ מִשָּׁ֔ם וְנִחְיֶ֖ה וְלֹ֥א נָמֽוּת׃

And he said: 'Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt. Get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die.'

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 יֹּ֕אמֶר	cc	and
2	יֹּ֕אמֶר	אָמַר	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	root	root	he said
3	הִנֵּ֣ה	הִנֵּה	INTJ	_	4 שָׁמַ֔עְתִּי	discourse	here!
4	שָׁמַ֔עְתִּי	שָׁמַע	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=1	2 יֹּ֕אמֶר	ccomp	I have heard
5	כִּ֥י	כִּי	SCONJ	_	6 יֶשׁ־	mark	(dm) that
6	יֶשׁ־	יֵשׁ	ADV	_	4 שָׁמַ֔עְתִּי	ccomp	there [is]
7	שֶׁ֖בֶר	שֶׁבֶר	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	6 יֶשׁ־	nsubj	grain
8	בְּ	בְּ	ADP	_	9 מִצְרָ֑יִם	case	in
9	מִצְרָ֑יִם	מִצְרַיִם	PROPN	_	6 יֶשׁ־	obl	Egypt
10	רְדוּ־	יָרַד	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=2	4 שָׁמַ֔עְתִּי	parataxis	go down
11	שָׁ֙מּ	שָׁם	ADV	_	10 רְדוּ־	advmod	to
12	ָה֙	ה	X	_	11 שָׁ֙מּ	nmod	(to)
13	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	14 שִׁבְרוּ־	cc	and
14	שִׁבְרוּ־	שָׁבַר	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=2	4 שָׁמַ֔עְתִּי	conj	buy grain
15	ל	לְ	ADP	_	16 ָ֣נוּ	case	for
16	ָ֣נוּ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Com Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 שִׁבְרוּ־	obl	us
17	מִ	מִן	ADP	_	18 שָּׁ֔ם	case	from
18	שָּׁ֔ם	שָׁם	ADV	_	14 שִׁבְרוּ־	obl	there
19	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	20 נִחְיֶ֖ה	cc	so
20	נִחְיֶ֖ה	חָיָה	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=1	4 שָׁמַ֔עְתִּי	conj	that we may live
21	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	23 נָמֽוּת	cc	and
22	לֹ֥א	לֹא	ADV	_	23 נָמֽוּת	advmod	not
23	נָמֽוּת	מוּת	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=1	20 נִחְיֶ֖ה	conj	we will die
24	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	23 נָמֽוּת	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: request
voice: character
speech: a frame and its quote
negation: yes
the frame alone: decl · narrate · none

verb	form · stem	what, whom (A1)
יֹּאמֶר he said	wayyiqtol · qal
שָׁמַעְתִּי I have heard	qatal · qal	יֶשׁ־ there [is]
רְדוּ־ go down	imperative · qal
שִׁבְרוּ־ buy grain	imperative · qal	שֶׁבֶר grain
נִחְיֶה that we may live	yiqtol · qal
not נָמֽוּת we will die	yiqtol · qal

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

וַאֲמַר הָא שְׁמָעִית אָמְרִין אֲרֵי אִית עִיבוּרָא מִזְדַּבַּן בְּמִצְרָיִם חוּתוּ תַמָּן וּזְבוּנוּ לָנָא מִּתַּמָּן וְנֵחֵי וְלָא נְמוּת

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:1254.

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