Genesis 37:27 · JPS 1917

Come, and let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and let not our hand be upon him; for he is our brother, our flesh.' And his brethren hearkened unto him.

Who acts: you, us, hand, Judah, brethren · What happens: come, let, sell, not let, be, hearken · To what, where: us, Judah, Ishmaelites, brother

This is Genesis 37:27 · 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 (you, us, hand, Judah), 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	Come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 let	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 let	cc
4	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Come	conj
5	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 let	obj
6	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 let	xcomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sell	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 Ishmaelites	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Ishmaelites	det
10	Ishmaelites	Ishmaelite	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 sell	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 let	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 let	cc
13	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 let	conj
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 let	advmod
15	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 hand	nmod:poss
16	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 him	nsubj
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 him	cop
18	upon	upon	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 let	ccomp
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 brother	punct
21	for	for	SCONJ	_	25 brother	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 brother	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 brother	cop
24	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 brother	nmod:poss
25	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Come	parataxis
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 flesh	punct
27	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 flesh	nmod:poss
28	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 brother	appos
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Come	punct
30	'	'	PUNCT	_	1 Come	punct
31	And	and	CCONJ	_	34 hearkened	cc
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 brethren	nmod:poss
33	brethren	brethren	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 hearkened	nsubj
34	hearkened	hearken	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Come	conj
35	unto	unto	ADP	_	36 him	case
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 hearkened	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Come	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed voice=character

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	come	imperative	you not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	let	infinitive	you not said here	us			tree rules
3	sell	infinitive	us not said here	Judah	the Ishmaelites		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Theme to ishmaelite=Recipient
4	not let	infinitive	you not said here				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
5	is	infinitive	our hand			upon Judah	tree rules
6	is a	present	Judah	our brother			tree rules
7	hearken	past	Judah's brethren			unto Judah	tree rules

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

לְכ֞וּ וְנִמְכְּרֶ֣נּוּ לַיִּשְׁמְעֵאלִ֗ים וְיָדֵ֙נוּ֙ אַל־תְּהִי־ב֔וֹ כִּֽי־אָחִ֥ינוּ בְשָׂרֵ֖נוּ ה֑וּא וַֽיִּשְׁמְע֖וּ אֶחָֽיו׃

Genesis 37:27: 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:1205 of Mova's parse database.

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