Genesis 37:17 · JPS 1917
And the man said: 'They are departed hence; for I heard them say: Let us go to Dothan.' And Joseph went after his brethren, and found them in Dothan.
Who acts: man, I, us, Joseph · What happens: say, depart, hear, let, go, find · To what, where: brethren, us, Dothan · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Genesis 37:17 · 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 (man, I, us, 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 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 departed | punct |
| 7 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 departed | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 departed | aux:pass |
| 9 | departed | depart | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 said | ccomp |
| 10 | hence | hence | ADV | _ | 9 departed | advmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 heard | punct |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 heard | mark |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 heard | nsubj |
| 14 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | advcl |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 heard | obj |
| 16 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 heard | ccomp |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 Let | punct |
| 18 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 say | ccomp |
| 19 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 Let | obj |
| 20 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 Let | xcomp |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 Dothan | case |
| 22 | Dothan | Dothan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 go | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 Let | punct |
| 24 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 Let | punct |
| 25 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 went | cc |
| 26 | Joseph | Joseph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 went | nsubj |
| 27 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 28 | after | after | ADP | _ | 30 brethren | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 brethren | nmod:poss |
| 30 | brethren | brethren | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 went | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 found | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 found | cc |
| 33 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 went | conj |
| 34 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 found | obj |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 Dothan | case |
| 36 | Dothan | Dothan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 found | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- 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 | the man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | depart | present · passive | brethren | hence property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | hear | past | I | brethren | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | infinitive | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 5 | let | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | go | infinitive | us not said here | Dothan | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to dothan=Initial_Location | ||||
| 7 | go | past | Joseph | after man's brethren | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | find | past | Joseph not said here | brethren | Dothan | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic |
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
וַיֹּ֤אמֶר הָאִישׁ֙ נָסְע֣וּ מִזֶּ֔ה כִּ֤י שָׁמַ֙עְתִּי֙ אֹֽמְרִ֔ים נֵלְכָ֖ה דֹּתָ֑יְנָה וַיֵּ֤לֶךְ יוֹסֵף֙ אַחַ֣ר אֶחָ֔יו וַיִּמְצָאֵ֖ם בְּדֹתָֽן׃
Genesis 37:17: 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:1195 of Mova's parse database.
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