Genesis 37:18 · JPS 1917

And they saw him afar off, and before he came near unto them, they conspired against him to slay him.

Who acts: brethren, man · What happens: see, come, conspire, slay · To what, where: man

This is Genesis 37:18 · 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, man), 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	_	3 saw	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	obj
5	afar	afar	ADV	_	6 off	advmod
6	off	off	ADV	_	3 saw	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 conspired	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 conspired	cc
9	before	before	SCONJ	_	11 came	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 came	nsubj
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 conspired	advcl
12	near	near	ADV	_	11 came	advmod
13	unto	unto	ADP	_	14 them	case
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 came	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 conspired	punct
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 conspired	nsubj
17	conspired	conspire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	conj
18	against	against	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 conspired	obl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 slay	mark
21	slay	slay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 conspired	advcl
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 slay	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	brethren	man	off property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
2	come	past	man		unto brethren; near property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	conspire	past	brethren		against man	vn conspire-71 «NP V PP.maleficiary»: agent=Agent against he=Maleficiary
4	slay	to-infinitive	brethren not said here	man		vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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

וַיִּרְא֥וּ אֹת֖וֹ מֵרָחֹ֑ק וּבְטֶ֙רֶם֙ יִקְרַ֣ב אֲלֵיהֶ֔ם וַיִּֽתְנַכְּל֥וּ אֹת֖וֹ לַהֲמִיתֽוֹ׃

Genesis 37:18: 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:1196 of Mova's parse database.

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