Genesis 39:17 · JPS 1917
And she spoke unto him according to these words, saying: 'The Hebrew servant, whom thou hast brought unto us, came in unto me to mock me.
Who acts: wife, thou, Hebrew servant · What happens: speak, accord, say, bring, come in, mock · To what, where: Hebrew servant, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Genesis 39:17 · 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, thou, Hebrew servant), 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 spoke | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 spoke | nsubj |
| 3 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 spoke | obl |
| 6 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 words | case |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 according | fixed |
| 8 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 words | det |
| 9 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 spoke | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 saying | punct |
| 11 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 spoke | advcl |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 came | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 came | punct |
| 14 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 servant | det |
| 15 | Hebrew | hebrew | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 servant | amod |
| 16 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 came | nsubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 brought | punct |
| 18 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 brought | obj |
| 19 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 21 brought | nsubj |
| 20 | hast | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 brought | aux |
| 21 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 servant | acl:relcl |
| 22 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 23 us | case |
| 23 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 brought | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 came | punct |
| 25 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 spoke | ccomp |
| 26 | in | in | ADV | _ | 25 came | advmod |
| 27 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 28 me | case |
| 28 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 came | obl |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 mock | mark |
| 30 | mock | mock | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 came | advcl |
| 31 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 mock | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | wife | unto Joseph; accord this words | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | wife not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | bring | present · perfect | thou | the Hebrew servant | unto us | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument whom=Destination | |||
| 5 | come in | past | the Hebrew servant | unto me | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | mock | to-infinitive | the Hebrew servant not said here | me | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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
וַתְּדַבֵּ֣ר אֵלָ֔יו כַּדְּבָרִ֥ים הָאֵ֖לֶּה לֵאמֹ֑ר בָּֽא־אֵלַ֞י הָעֶ֧בֶד הָֽעִבְרִ֛י אֲשֶׁר־הֵבֵ֥אתָ לָּ֖נוּ לְצַ֥חֶק בִּֽי׃
Genesis 39:17: 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:1267 of Mova's parse database.
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