Genesis 42:1 · JPS 1917

Now Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, and Jacob said unto his sons: 'Why do ye look one upon another?'

Who acts: Jacob, corn, ye · What happens: see, be, say, look · To what, where: Egypt, one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Genesis 42:1 · 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 (Jacob, corn, 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 saw	advmod
2	Jacob	Jacob	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 was	mark
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 was	expl
6	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	ccomp
7	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 was	nsubj
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 Egypt	case
9	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 was	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 said	cc
12	Jacob	Jacob	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	conj
14	unto	unto	ADP	_	16 sons	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 sons	nmod:poss
16	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 said	obl
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 look	punct
18	'	'	PUNCT	_	22 look	punct
19	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	22 look	advmod
20	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 look	aux
21	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	22 look	nsubj
22	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
23	one	one	PRON	_	22 look	obj
24	upon	upon	ADP	_	25 another	case
25	another	another	PRON	PronType=Ind	22 look	obl
26	?	?	PUNCT	_	22 look	punct
27	'	'	PUNCT	_	22 look	punct

Pragmatics

form: wh-question
act: ask
voice: character
polarity: none
indirect: yes
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	Jacob			now		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	be	past	corn		Egypt; there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in egypt=Location
3	say speech: assert	past	Jacob				unto Jacob's sons	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	look	present · do-support	ye	one			upon another	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme one=Attribute

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

וַיַּ֣רְא יַעֲקֹ֔ב כִּ֥י יֶשׁ־שֶׁ֖בֶר בְּמִצְרָ֑יִם וַיֹּ֤אמֶר יַעֲקֹב֙ לְבָנָ֔יו לָ֖מָּה תִּתְרָאֽוּ׃

Genesis 42:1: 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:1360 of Mova's parse database.

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