Genesis 41:21 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
And when they had eaten them up, it could not be known that they had eaten them; but they were still ill-favoured as at the beginning.
Who acts: men · What happens: eat up, not know, eat, favour · To what, where: ears, kine, men · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Genesis 41:21 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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 (men), 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 | _ | 26 favoured | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 eaten | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 eaten | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 eaten | aux |
| 5 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 known | advcl |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 eaten | obj |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 eaten | compound:prt |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 eaten | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 known | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 known | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 known | advmod |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 known | aux:pass |
| 13 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 eaten | mark |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 eaten | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 eaten | aux |
| 17 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 known | ccomp |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 eaten | obj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 favoured | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 favoured | cc |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 favoured | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 favoured | aux:pass |
| 23 | still | still | ADV | _ | 26 favoured | advmod |
| 24 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 favoured | advmod |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 ill | punct |
| 26 | favoured | favour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 known | conj |
| 27 | as | as | ADP | _ | 30 beginning | case |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 beginning | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 beginning | det |
| 30 | beginning | beginning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 favoured | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 known | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat up | past · perfect | men = man | ears = ear | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not know | could · passive | kine | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | eat | past · perfect | men = man | ears = ear | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 4 | favour | past · passive | men = man | as the beginning; still | 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
וַתָּבֹ֣אנָה אֶל־קִרְבֶּ֗נָה וְלֹ֤א נוֹדַע֙ כִּי־בָ֣אוּ אֶל־קִרְבֶּ֔נָה וּמַרְאֵיהֶ֣ן רַ֔ע כַּאֲשֶׁ֖ר בַּתְּחִלָּ֑ה וָאִיקָֽץ׃
Genesis 41:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- And when they had eaten them up, it could not be known that they had eaten them; but they were still ill-favoured as at the beginning.
- So I awoke.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:GEN:1320 of Mova's parse database.
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