Genesis 37:28 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
And there passed by Midianites, merchantmen; and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty shekels of silver.
Who acts: Midianites · What happens: pass by, draw, lift up, sell · To what, where: Joseph, pit, Ishmaelites
This is Genesis 37:28 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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 (Midianites), 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 passed | cc |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 passed | expl |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 3 passed | compound:prt |
| 5 | Midianites | Midianite | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 passed | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 merchantmen | punct |
| 7 | merchantmen | merchantman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 Midianites | appos |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 drew | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 drew | cc |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 drew | nsubj |
| 11 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 passed | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 lifted | cc |
| 13 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 drew | conj |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 lifted | compound:prt |
| 15 | Joseph | Joseph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 lifted | obj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 pit | case |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 out | fixed |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 pit | det |
| 19 | pit | pit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lifted | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 sold | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 sold | cc |
| 22 | sold | sell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 lifted | conj |
| 23 | Joseph | Joseph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 sold | obj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 Ishmaelites | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Ishmaelites | det |
| 26 | Ishmaelites | Ishmaelite | PROPN | Number=Plur | 22 sold | obl |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 shekels | case |
| 28 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 shekels | nummod |
| 29 | shekels | shekel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 sold | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 silver | case |
| 31 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 shekels | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass by | past | Midianites | there | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | draw | past | Midianites = midianite | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | lift up | past | Midianites = midianite not said here | Joseph | the pit | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent joseph=Theme out pit=Destination | |||
| 4 | sell | past | Midianites = midianite not said here | Joseph | the Ishmaelites | for twenty shekels of silver | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent joseph=Theme to ishmaelite=Recipient for shekel=Asset |
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
וַיַּֽעַבְרוּ֩ אֲנָשִׁ֨ים מִדְיָנִ֜ים סֹֽחֲרִ֗ים וַֽיִּמְשְׁכוּ֙ וַיַּֽעֲל֤וּ אֶת־יוֹסֵף֙ מִן־הַבּ֔וֹר וַיִּמְכְּר֧וּ אֶת־יוֹסֵ֛ף לַיִּשְׁמְעֵאלִ֖ים בְּעֶשְׂרִ֣ים כָּ֑סֶף וַיָּבִ֥יאוּ אֶת־יוֹסֵ֖ף מִצְרָֽיְמָה׃
Genesis 37:28: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- And there passed by Midianites, merchantmen; and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty shekels of silver.
- And they brought Joseph into Egypt.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:GEN:1206 of Mova's parse database.
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