Genesis 37:32 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2
Know now whether it is thy son's coat or not.'
Who acts: you, coat · What happens: know, be · To what, where: coat · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Genesis 37:32 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 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 (you, coat), 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 | Know | know | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Know | advmod |
| 3 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 9 coat | mark |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 coat | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 coat | cop |
| 6 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 son | nmod:poss |
| 7 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 coat | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 son | case |
| 9 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Know | ccomp |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 not | cc |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 coat | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Know | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Know | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | imperative | you not said here | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | coat | thy son's coat | 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
וַֽיְשַׁלְּח֞וּ אֶת־כְּתֹ֣נֶת הַפַּסִּ֗ים וַיָּבִ֙יאוּ֙ אֶל־אֲבִיהֶ֔ם וַיֹּאמְר֖וּ זֹ֣את מָצָ֑אנוּ הַכֶּר־נָ֗א הַכְּתֹ֧נֶת בִּנְךָ֛ הִ֖וא אִם־לֹֽא׃
Genesis 37:32: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- and they sent the coat of many colours, and they brought it to their father; and said: 'This have we found.
- Know now whether it is thy son's coat or not.'
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:GEN:1212 of Mova's parse database.
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