Genesis 37:3 · JPS 1917

Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age; and he made him a coat of many colours.

Who acts: Israel, Joseph · What happens: love, be, make · To what, where: Joseph, son, coat, Israel

This is Genesis 37:3 · 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 (Israel, Joseph), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 loved	advmod
2	Israel	Israel	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 loved	nsubj
3	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Joseph	Joseph	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 loved	obj
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 children	advmod
6	than	than	ADP	_	9 children	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 children	det:predet
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 children	nmod:poss
9	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 loved	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 son	punct
11	because	because	SCONJ	_	15 son	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 son	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 son	cop
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 son	det
15	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 loved	advcl
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 age	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 age	nmod:poss
18	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 age	amod
19	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 son	nmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 made	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 made	cc
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 made	nsubj
23	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 loved	conj
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 made	iobj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 coat	det
26	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 made	xcomp
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 colours	case
28	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 colours	amod
29	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 coat	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 loved	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: pos
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	love	past	Israel	Joseph		now	than Joseph's children	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer joseph=Stimulus
2	is a	past	Joseph	the son		of Joseph's old age		tree rules
3	make	past	Joseph	a coat of many colours	Israel			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Product

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

וְיִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל אָהַ֤ב אֶת־יוֹסֵף֙ מִכָּל־בָּנָ֔יו כִּֽי־בֶן־זְקֻנִ֥ים ה֖וּא ל֑וֹ וְעָ֥שָׂה ל֖וֹ כְּתֹ֥נֶת פַּסִּֽים׃

Genesis 37:3: 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:1178 of Mova's parse database.

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