Genesis 33:8 · JPS 1917
And he said: 'What meanest thou by all this camp which I met?' And he said: 'To find favour in the sight of my lord.'
Who acts: Joseph, thou, I · What happens: say, mean, meet, find, sight · To what, where: camp, favour, sight, lord · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Genesis 33:8 · JPS 1917 in the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, from Mova's open Bible corpus. The page gives the sentence's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, parsed by Mova and checked by a teacher model — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Joseph, thou, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it. The original of the verse links back to its own tree and to the Targum.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 said | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 meanest | punct |
| 6 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 meanest | obj |
| 7 | meanest | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | ccomp |
| 8 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 meanest | nsubj |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 camp | case |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 camp | det:predet |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 camp | det |
| 12 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 meanest | obl |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 met | obj |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 met | nsubj |
| 15 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 camp | acl:relcl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 meanest | punct |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 meanest | punct |
| 18 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 said | cc |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 said | nsubj |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
| 22 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 find | punct |
| 23 | To | to | PART | _ | 24 find | mark |
| 24 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 said | ccomp |
| 25 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 find | obj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 sight | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 sight | det |
| 28 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 find | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 lord | case |
| 30 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 lord | nmod:poss |
| 31 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 sight | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 find | punct |
| 33 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 find | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- ask
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Joseph | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | thou | by all camp | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | ||||
| 3 | meet | past | I | all camp | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Joseph | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | find | to-infinitive | favour | the sight of my lord | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent favour=Topic | ||||
| 6 | sight | my lord | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
The Hebrew of this verse
וַיֹּ֕אמֶר מִ֥י לְךָ֛ כָּל־הַמַּחֲנֶ֥ה הַזֶּ֖ה אֲשֶׁ֣ר פָּגָ֑שְׁתִּי וַיֹּ֕אמֶר לִמְצֹא־חֵ֖ן בְּעֵינֵ֥י אֲדֹנִֽי׃
Genesis 33:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:GEN:1041 of Mova's parse database.
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