Genesis 39:1 · JPS 1917
And Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him of the hand of the Ishmaelites, that had brought him down thither.
Who acts: Potiphar, Ishmaelites · What happens: bring down, buy · To what, where: Joseph, Egypt
This is Genesis 39:1 · 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 (Potiphar, Ishmaelites), 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 | _ | 4 brought | cc |
| 2 | Joseph | Joseph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 brought | aux:pass |
| 4 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 brought | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Egypt | case |
| 7 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 brought | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 bought | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 bought | cc |
| 10 | Potiphar | Potiphar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 bought | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 officer | punct |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 officer | det |
| 13 | officer | officer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Potiphar | appos |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Pharaoh | case |
| 15 | Pharaoh | Pharaoh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 officer | nmod |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 Pharaoh | case |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 captain | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 captain | det |
| 19 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Potiphar | appos |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 guard | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 guard | det |
| 22 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 captain | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Egyptian | punct |
| 24 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 Egyptian | det |
| 25 | Egyptian | Egyptian | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Potiphar | appos |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Potiphar | punct |
| 27 | bought | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 brought | conj |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 bought | obj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 hand | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 hand | det |
| 31 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 bought | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 Ishmaelites | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Ishmaelites | det |
| 34 | Ishmaelites | Ishmaelites | PROPN | Number=Plur | 31 hand | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 brought | punct |
| 36 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 brought | nsubj |
| 37 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 brought | aux |
| 38 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 34 Ishmaelites | acl:relcl |
| 39 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 brought | obj |
| 40 | down | down | ADV | _ | 38 brought | advmod |
| 41 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 38 brought | advmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring down | past · passive | Joseph | Egypt | down property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to egypt=Destination | |||
| 2 | buy | past | Potiphar | Joseph | of the hand of the Ishmaelites | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 3 | bring down | past · perfect | the Ishmaelites | Joseph | down, thither property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination |
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
וְיוֹסֵ֖ף הוּרַ֣ד מִצְרָ֑יְמָה וַיִּקְנֵ֡הוּ פּוֹטִיפַר֩ סְרִ֨יס פַּרְעֹ֜ה שַׂ֤ר הַטַּבָּחִים֙ אִ֣ישׁ מִצְרִ֔י מִיַּד֙ הַיִּשְׁמְעֵאלִ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר הוֹרִדֻ֖הוּ שָֽׁמָּה׃
Genesis 39:1: 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:1248 of Mova's parse database.
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