Genesis 37:33 · JPS 1917
And he knew it, and said: 'It is my son's coat; an evil beast hath devoured him; Joseph is without doubt torn in pieces.'
Who acts: Reuben, coat, evil beast · What happens: know, say, be, devour, tear · To what, where: coat, Reuben, Joseph, pieces · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Genesis 37:33 · 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 (Reuben, coat, evil beast), 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 knew | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 knew | nsubj |
| 3 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 knew | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 knew | conj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 coat | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 coat | punct |
| 10 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 coat | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 coat | cop |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 son | nmod:poss |
| 13 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 coat | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 son | case |
| 15 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | ccomp |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 devoured | punct |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 beast | det |
| 18 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 beast | amod |
| 19 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 devoured | nsubj |
| 20 | hath | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 devoured | aux |
| 21 | devoured | devour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 said | parataxis |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 devoured | obj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 torn | punct |
| 24 | Joseph | Joseph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 torn | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 torn | aux:pass |
| 26 | without | without | ADP | _ | 27 doubt | case |
| 27 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 torn | obl |
| 28 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 said | parataxis |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 pieces | case |
| 30 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 torn | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 knew | punct |
| 32 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed polarity=neg
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | Reuben | coat | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Reuben not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | coat | my son's coat | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | devour | present · perfect | a evil beast | Reuben | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 5 | tear | present · passive | Joseph | pieces | without doubt | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
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
וַיַּכִּירָ֤הּ וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ כְּתֹ֣נֶת בְּנִ֔י חַיָּ֥ה רָעָ֖ה אֲכָלָ֑תְהוּ טָרֹ֥ף טֹרַ֖ף יוֹסֵֽף׃
Genesis 37:33: 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:1213 of Mova's parse database.
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