Genesis 42:2 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2
Get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die.'
Who acts: you, we · What happens: get down, buy, live, not die · To what, where: you
This is Genesis 42:2 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 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 (you, we), 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 | Get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 1 Get | obj |
| 3 | down | down | ADV | _ | 1 Get | advmod |
| 4 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 1 Get | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 buy | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 buy | cc |
| 7 | buy | buy | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Get | conj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 us | case |
| 9 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 buy | obl |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 thence | case |
| 11 | thence | thence | ADV | _ | 7 buy | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 live | punct |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 live | mark |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 live | nsubj |
| 15 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 live | aux |
| 16 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 buy | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 die | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 die | cc |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 die | advmod |
| 20 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 live | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Get | punct |
| 22 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Get | punct |
Pragmatics
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get down | imperative | you not said here | you | down, thither property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | buy | infinitive | you not said here | for us | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent for we=Asset from thence=Source | ||||
| 3 | live | may | we | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not die | infinitive | we not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=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
וַיֹּ֕אמֶר הִנֵּ֣ה שָׁמַ֔עְתִּי כִּ֥י יֶשׁ־שֶׁ֖בֶר בְּמִצְרָ֑יִם רְדוּ־שָׁ֙מָּה֙ וְשִׁבְרוּ־לָ֣נוּ מִשָּׁ֔ם וְנִחְיֶ֖ה וְלֹ֥א נָמֽוּת׃
Genesis 42:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- And he said: 'Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt.
- Get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die.'
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:GEN:1362 of Mova's parse database.
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