Genesis 37:8 · JPS 1917
And his brethren said to him: 'Shalt thou indeed reign over us? or shalt thou indeed have dominion over us?' And they hated him yet the more for his dreams, and for his words.
Who acts: brethren, thou, Joseph · What happens: say, reign, have, hate, dream, word · To what, where: Joseph, dominion · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Genesis 37:8 · 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 (brethren, thou, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 said | cc |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 brethren | nmod:poss |
| 3 | brethren | brethren | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 reign | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 reign | punct |
| 9 | Shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 12 reign | aux |
| 10 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 reign | nsubj |
| 11 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 12 reign | advmod |
| 12 | reign | reign | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 13 | over | over | ADP | _ | 14 us | case |
| 14 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 reign | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 reign | punct |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 have | cc |
| 17 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 20 have | aux |
| 18 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 20 have | nsubj |
| 19 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 20 have | advmod |
| 20 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 reign | conj |
| 21 | dominion | dominion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 have | obj |
| 22 | over | over | ADP | _ | 23 us | case |
| 23 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 have | obl |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 reign | punct |
| 25 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 reign | punct |
| 26 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 hated | cc |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 hated | nsubj |
| 28 | hated | hate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 hated | obj |
| 30 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 32 more | advmod |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 more | det |
| 32 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 28 hated | advmod |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 dreams | case |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 dreams | nmod:poss |
| 35 | dreams | dream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 more | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 words | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 words | cc |
| 38 | for | for | ADP | _ | 40 words | case |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 words | nmod:poss |
| 40 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 dreams | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- ask
- voice
- character
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed act=ask, indirect=0, polarity=neg
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Joseph's brethren | Joseph | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to he=Experiencer clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | reign | shall | thou | over us; indeed property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | shall | thou | dominion | over us; indeed property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dominion=Patient | |||
| 4 | hate | past | brethren | Joseph | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | dream | Joseph | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | word | Joseph | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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
וַיֹּ֤אמְרוּ לוֹ֙ אֶחָ֔יו הֲמָלֹ֤ךְ תִּמְלֹךְ֙ עָלֵ֔ינוּ אִם־מָשׁ֥וֹל תִּמְשֹׁ֖ל בָּ֑נוּ וַיּוֹסִ֤פוּ עוֹד֙ שְׂנֹ֣א אֹת֔וֹ עַל־חֲלֹמֹתָ֖יו וְעַל־דְּבָרָֽיו׃
Genesis 37:8: 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:1183 of Mova's parse database.
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