Genesis 40:7 · JPS 1917

And he asked Pharaoh's officers that were with him in the ward of his master's house, saying: 'Wherefore look ye so sad to-day?'

Who acts: Joseph, officers, ye · What happens: ask, be, say, look · To what, where: officers, ward · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Genesis 40:7 · 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 (Joseph, officers, ye), 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 asked	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 asked	nsubj
3	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Pharaoh	Pharaoh	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 officers	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Pharaoh	case
6	officers	officer	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 asked	obj
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 him	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 him	cop
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 officers	acl:relcl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 ward	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ward	det
13	ward	ward	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 him	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	18 house	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 master	nmod:poss
16	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 house	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 master	case
18	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ward	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 saying	punct
20	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 asked	advcl
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 look	punct
22	'	'	PUNCT	_	24 look	punct
23	Wherefore	wherefore	ADV	PronType=Int	24 look	advmod
24	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 saying	ccomp
25	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	24 look	nsubj
26	so	so	ADV	_	27 sad	advmod
27	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 look	xcomp
28	to	to	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 day	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 to	punct
30	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 sad	obl:unmarked
31	?	?	PUNCT	_	24 look	punct
32	'	'	PUNCT	_	24 look	punct

Pragmatics

form: wh-question
act: ask
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	Joseph	Pharaoh's officers			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent officer=Recipient
2	is	past	Pharaoh's officers		the ward of Joseph's master's house	with Pharaoh	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	gerund	Joseph not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	look	infinitive	ye			sad, wherefore property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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

וַיִּשְׁאַ֞ל אֶת־סְרִיסֵ֣י פַרְעֹ֗ה אֲשֶׁ֨ר אִתּ֧וֹ בְמִשְׁמַ֛ר בֵּ֥ית אֲדֹנָ֖יו לֵאמֹ֑ר מַדּ֛וּעַ פְּנֵיכֶ֥ם רָעִ֖ים הַיּֽוֹם׃

Genesis 40:7: 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:1280 of Mova's parse database.

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