Genesis 37:21 · JPS 1917

And Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their hand; and said: 'Let us not take his life.'

Who acts: Reuben, us · What happens: hear, deliver, say, let, not take · To what, where: beast, Reuben, hand, us, life · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Genesis 37:21 · 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 (Reuben, us), 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 heard	cc
2	Reuben	Reuben	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 heard	nsubj
3	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 heard	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 delivered	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 delivered	cc
7	delivered	deliver	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 heard	conj
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 delivered	obj
9	out	out	ADP	_	12 hand	case
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 hand	case
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 hand	nmod:poss
12	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 delivered	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 said	cc
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 heard	conj
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 Let	punct
17	'	'	PUNCT	_	18 Let	punct
18	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	15 said	ccomp
19	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 Let	obj
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 take	advmod
21	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 Let	xcomp
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 life	nmod:poss
23	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 take	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 Let	punct
25	'	'	PUNCT	_	18 Let	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: suggest
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	hear	past	Reuben	beast		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	deliver	past	Reuben not said here	Reuben	brethren's hand	vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent he=Theme out hand=Initial_Location
3	say speech: assert	past	Reuben not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	let	infinitive		us		tree rules
5	not take	infinitive	us not said here	Reuben's life		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme

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

וַיִּשְׁמַ֣ע רְאוּבֵ֔ן וַיַּצִּלֵ֖הוּ מִיָּדָ֑ם וַיֹּ֕אמֶר לֹ֥א נַכֶּ֖נּוּ נָֽפֶשׁ׃

Genesis 37:21: 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:1199 of Mova's parse database.

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