Genesis 37:31 · JPS 1917
And they took Joseph's coat, and killed a he-goat, and dipped the coat in the blood;
Who acts: children · What happens: take, kill, dip · To what, where: coat, he goat, blood
This is Genesis 37:31 · 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 (children), 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 | Joseph | Joseph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 coat | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Joseph | case |
| 6 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 killed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 killed | cc |
| 9 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 goat | det |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 goat | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 he | punct |
| 13 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 killed | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 dipped | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 dipped | cc |
| 16 | dipped | dip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 coat | det |
| 18 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 dipped | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 blood | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 blood | det |
| 21 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 dipped | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | 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 | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | children = child | Joseph's coat | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coat=Theme | ||||
| 2 | kill | past | children = child not said here | a he goat | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goat=Theme | ||||
| 3 | dip | past | children = child not said here | the coat | the blood | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent coat=Theme in blood=Trajectory |
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
וַיִּקְח֖וּ אֶת־כְּתֹ֣נֶת יוֹסֵ֑ף וַֽיִּשְׁחֲטוּ֙ שְׂעִ֣יר עִזִּ֔ים וַיִּטְבְּל֥וּ אֶת־הַכֻּתֹּ֖נֶת בַּדָּֽם׃
Genesis 37:31: 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:1210 of Mova's parse database.
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