Genesis 37:24 · JPS 1917

and they took him, and cast him into the pit — and the pit was empty, there was no water in it.

Who acts: brethren, pit, water · What happens: take, cast, be · To what, where: Joseph, pit, hand

This is Genesis 37:24 · 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, pit, water), 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 took	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	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 took	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 cast	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 cast	cc
7	cast	cast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cast	obj
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 pit	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 pit	det
11	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cast	obl
12	—	-	PUNCT	_	17 empty	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 empty	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 pit	det
15	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 empty	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 empty	cop
17	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 took	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 was	punct
19	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	20 was	expl
20	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 empty	parataxis
21	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	22 water	det
22	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 was	nsubj
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 it	case
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 was	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	brethren		Joseph			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination
2	cast	past	brethren not said here	Joseph		the pit		vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent he=Material into pit=Product
3	is	past	the pit				empty property	tree rules
4	be	past	no water			hand; there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=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

וַיִּ֨קָּחֻ֔הוּ וַיַּשְׁלִ֥כוּ אֹת֖וֹ הַבֹּ֑רָה וְהַבּ֣וֹר רֵ֔ק אֵ֥ין בּ֖וֹ מָֽיִם׃

Genesis 37:24: 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:1202 of Mova's parse database.

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