Genesis 39:12 · JPS 1917
that she caught him by his garment, saying: 'Lie with me.' And he left his garment in her hand, and fled, and got him out.
Who acts: wife, Joseph · What happens: catch, say, lie, leave, flee, get out · To what, where: Joseph, garment, hand · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Genesis 39:12 · 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 (wife, Joseph), 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 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 3 caught | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 caught | nsubj |
| 3 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 caught | obj |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 garment | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 garment | nmod:poss |
| 7 | garment | garment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 caught | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 saying | punct |
| 9 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 caught | advcl |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 Lie | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 Lie | punct |
| 12 | Lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 saying | ccomp |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 me | case |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 Lie | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 Lie | punct |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 Lie | punct |
| 17 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 left | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 left | nsubj |
| 19 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 caught | conj |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 garment | nmod:poss |
| 21 | garment | garment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 left | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 hand | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 hand | nmod:poss |
| 24 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 left | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 fled | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 fled | cc |
| 27 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 left | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 got | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 got | cc |
| 30 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 left | conj |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 got | obj |
| 32 | out | out | ADV | _ | 30 got | advmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past | wife | Joseph | by Joseph's garment | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | wife not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | lie | infinitive | with me | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | leave | past | Joseph | Joseph's garment | wife's hand | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent garment=Theme in hand=Location | |||
| 5 | flee | past | Joseph not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | get out | past | Joseph not said here | Joseph | out property | 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
וַתִּתְפְּשֵׂ֧הוּ בְּבִגְד֛וֹ לֵאמֹ֖ר שִׁכְבָ֣ה עִמִּ֑י וַיַּעֲזֹ֤ב בִּגְדוֹ֙ בְּיָדָ֔הּ וַיָּ֖נָס וַיֵּצֵ֥א הַחֽוּצָה׃
Genesis 39:12: 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:1262 of Mova's parse database.
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