Genesis 37:12 · JPS 1917
And his brethren went to feed their father's flock in Shechem.
Who acts: brethren · What happens: go, feed · To what, where: flock, Shechem
This is Genesis 37:12 · 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), 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 went | 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 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 feed | mark |
| 6 | feed | feed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 went | advcl |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 father | nmod:poss |
| 8 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 flock | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 father | case |
| 10 | flock | flock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 feed | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 Shechem | case |
| 12 | Shechem | Shechem | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 feed | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Joseph's brethren | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | feed | to-infinitive | Joseph's brethren not said here | brethren's father's flock | Shechem | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent flock=Value in shechem=Location |
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
וַיֵּלְכ֖וּ אֶחָ֑יו לִרְע֛וֹת אֶׄתׄ־צֹ֥אןאֲבִיהֶ֖ם בִּשְׁכֶֽם׃
Genesis 37:12: 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:1188 of Mova's parse database.
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