Genesis 41:27 · JPS 1917
And the seven lean and ill-favoured kine that came up after them are seven years, and also the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind; they shall be seven years of famine.
Who acts: seven lean favoured kine, seven empty ears, ears · What happens: favour, come up, be, blast · To what, where: seven years
This is Genesis 41:27 · 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 (seven lean favoured kine, seven empty ears, ears), 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 | _ | 17 years | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 kine | det |
| 3 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 kine | nummod |
| 4 | lean | lean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 kine | amod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 favoured | cc |
| 6 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 favoured | amod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 ill | punct |
| 8 | favoured | favour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 kine | amod |
| 9 | kine | kine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 years | nsubj |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 came | nsubj |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 kine | acl:relcl |
| 12 | up | up | ADV | _ | 11 came | advmod |
| 13 | after | after | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 came | obl |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 years | cop |
| 16 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 years | nummod |
| 17 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 ears | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 ears | cc |
| 20 | also | also | ADV | _ | 24 ears | advmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 ears | det |
| 22 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 ears | nummod |
| 23 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 ears | amod |
| 24 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 years | conj |
| 25 | blasted | blast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 ears | acl |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 wind | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 wind | det |
| 28 | east | east | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 wind | amod |
| 29 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 blasted | obl |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 years | punct |
| 31 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 years | nsubj |
| 32 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 years | aux |
| 33 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 35 years | cop |
| 34 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 35 years | nummod |
| 35 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 years | parataxis |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 famine | case |
| 37 | famine | famine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 years | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 years | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | favour | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | come up | past | the seven lean favoured kine | after ears = ear | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | the seven lean favoured kine | seven years and the seven empty ears | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | blast | past | the seven empty ears not said here | with the east wind | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with wind=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is a | shall | ears = ear | seven years | of famine | 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
וְשֶׁ֣בַע הַ֠פָּרוֹת הָֽרַקּ֨וֹת וְהָרָעֹ֜ת הָעֹלֹ֣ת אַחֲרֵיהֶ֗ן שֶׁ֤בַע שָׁנִים֙ הֵ֔נָּה וְשֶׁ֤בַע הַֽשִׁבֳּלִים֙ הָרֵק֔וֹת שְׁדֻפ֖וֹת הַקָּדִ֑ים יִהְי֕וּ שֶׁ֖בַע שְׁנֵ֥י רָעָֽב׃
Genesis 41:27: 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:1328 of Mova's parse database.
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