Genesis 37:16 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2
Tell me, I pray thee, where they are feeding the flock.'
Who acts: you, I, brethren · What happens: tell, pray, feed · To what, where: me, thee, flock · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Genesis 37:16 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 (you, I, 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 | Tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Tell | iobj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 pray | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 pray | nsubj |
| 5 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Tell | parataxis |
| 6 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 pray | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 feeding | punct |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 feeding | advmod |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 feeding | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 feeding | aux |
| 11 | feeding | feed | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Tell | ccomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 flock | det |
| 13 | flock | flock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 feeding | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Tell | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 . | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | pray | present | I | thee | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | feed | present · progressive | brethren | the flock | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flock=Recipient |
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 אֶת־אַחַ֖י אָנֹכִ֣י מְבַקֵּ֑שׁ הַגִּֽידָה־נָּ֣א לִ֔י אֵיפֹ֖ה הֵ֥ם רֹעִֽים׃
Genesis 37:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- And he said: 'I seek my brethren.
- Tell me, I pray thee, where they are feeding the flock.'
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:GEN:1194 of Mova's parse database.
The tree and the speech act come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.
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