Genesis 47:19 בְּרֵאשִׁית

Who acts: we, you, land · What happens: die, buy, be, give, live, not die · To what, where: us, bondmen, seed

This is Genesis 47:19 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 — we, you, land — and what happens in the verse to us, bondmen, seed, 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.

לָ֧מָּה נָמ֣וּת לְעֵינֶ֗יךָ גַּם־אֲנַ֙חְנוּ֙ גַּ֣ם אַדְמָתֵ֔נוּ קְנֵֽה־אֹתָ֥נוּ וְאֶת־אַדְמָתֵ֖נוּ בַּלָּ֑חֶם וְנִֽהְיֶ֞ה אֲנַ֤חְנוּ וְאַדְמָתֵ֙נוּ֙ עֲבָדִ֣ים לְפַרְעֹ֔ה וְתֶן־זֶ֗רַע וְנִֽחְיֶה֙ וְלֹ֣א נָמ֔וּת וְהָאֲדָמָ֖ה לֹ֥א תֵשָֽׁם׃

Wherefore should we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be bondmen unto Pharaoh; and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land be not desolate.'

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	לָ֧	לָמָה	ADP	_	2 מָּה	case
2	מָּה	מָה	PRON	PronType=Int	3 נָמ֣וּת	obl	why?
3	נָמ֣וּת	מוּת	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=1	root	root	will we die
4	לְ	לְ	ADP	_	5 עֵינֶ֗י	case	to
5	עֵינֶ֗י	עַיִן	NOUN	Number=Dual	3 נָמ֣וּת	obl	eyes
6	ךָ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 עֵינֶ֗י	nmod:poss	your
7	גַּם־	גַּם	ADV	_	8 אֲנַ֙חְנוּ֙	advmod	both
8	אֲנַ֙חְנוּ֙	אֲנַחְנוּ	PRON	Gender=Com Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 נָמ֣וּת	nsubj	we
9	גַּ֣ם	גַּם	ADV	_	10 אַדְמָת	advmod	as well as
10	אַדְמָת	אֲדָמָה	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	8 אֲנַ֙חְנוּ֙	conj	land
11	ֵ֔נוּ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Com Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 אַדְמָת	nmod:poss	our
12	קְנֵֽה־	קָנָה	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=2	3 נָמ֣וּת	parataxis	buy
13	אֹת	אֵת	ADP	_	14 ָ֥נוּ	case
14	ָ֥נוּ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Com Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 קְנֵֽה־	obj	us
15	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	17 אַדְמָת	cc	and
16	אֶת־	אֵת	ADP	_	17 אַדְמָת	case	(et)
17	אַדְמָת	אֲדָמָה	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	14 ָ֥נוּ	conj	land
18	ֵ֖נוּ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Com Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 אַדְמָת	nmod:poss	our
19	בַּ	בְּ	ADP	_	21 לָּ֑חֶם	case	for
20	ה	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	21 לָּ֑חֶם	det	(the)
21	לָּ֑חֶם	לֶחֶם	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 קְנֵֽה־	obl	food
22	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	28 עֲבָדִ֣ים	cc	and
23	נִֽהְיֶ֞ה	הָיָה	AUX	Gender=Com HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=1	28 עֲבָדִ֣ים	cop	we will be
24	אֲנַ֤חְנוּ	אֲנַחְנוּ	PRON	Gender=Com Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 עֲבָדִ֣ים	nsubj	we
25	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	26 אַדְמָת	cc	and
26	אַדְמָת	אֲדָמָה	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	24 אֲנַ֤חְנוּ	conj	land
27	ֵ֙נוּ֙	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Com Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 אַדְמָת	nmod:poss	our
28	עֲבָדִ֣ים	עֶבֶד	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	3 נָמ֣וּת	conj	slaves
29	לְ	לְ	ADP	_	30 פַרְעֹ֔ה	case	of
30	פַרְעֹ֔ה	פַּרְעֹה	PROPN	_	28 עֲבָדִ֣ים	obl	Pharaoh
31	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	32 תֶן־	cc	and
32	תֶן־	נָתַן	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=2	3 נָמ֣וּת	conj	give
33	זֶ֗רַע	זֶרַע	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	32 תֶן־	obj	seed
34	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	35 נִֽחְיֶה֙	cc	so
35	נִֽחְיֶה֙	חָיָה	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=1	3 נָמ֣וּת	conj	that we may live
36	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	38 נָמ֔וּת	cc	and
37	לֹ֣א	לֹא	ADV	_	38 נָמ֔וּת	advmod	not
38	נָמ֔וּת	מוּת	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=1	35 נִֽחְיֶה֙	conj	we will die
39	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	43 תֵשָֽׁם	cc	and
40	הָ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	41 אֲדָמָ֖ה	det	the
41	אֲדָמָ֖ה	אֲדָמָה	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	43 תֵשָֽׁם	nsubj	land
42	לֹ֥א	לֹא	ADV	_	43 תֵשָֽׁם	advmod	not
43	תֵשָֽׁם	יָשַׁם	VERB	Gender=Fem HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	35 נִֽחְיֶה֙	conj	it will be desolate
44	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	43 תֵשָֽׁם	punct

Pragmatics

form: wh-question
act: ask
voice: character
speech: inside a quote begun earlier
negation: yes

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	what, whom (A1)
נָמוּת will we die	yiqtol · qal	אֲנַחְנוּ we + אַדְמָת land
קְנֵֽה־ buy	imperative · qal		ָנוּ us + אַדְמָת land
נִֽהְיֶה we will be	yiqtol · qal	אֲנַחְנוּ we + אַדְמָת land
תֶן־ give	imperative · qal		זֶרַע seed
נִֽחְיֶה that we may live	yiqtol · qal
not נָמוּת we will die	yiqtol · qal
not תֵשָֽׁם it will be desolate	yiqtol · qal	אֲדָמָה land

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

לְמָה נְמוּת לְעֵינָיךְ אַף אֲנַחְנָא אַף אַרְעָתָנָא קְנֵי יָתָנָא וְיָת אַרְעָתָנָא בְּלַחְמָא וּנְהֵי אֲנַחְנָא וְאַרְעָתָנָא עַבְדִּין לְפַרְעֹה וְהַב בַּר זַרְעָא וְנֵיחֵי וְלָא נְמוּת וְאַרְעָא לָא תְבוּר

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.

Wherefore should we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be bondmen unto Pharaoh; and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land be not desolate.'

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:1439.

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