Genesis 42:5 · JPS 1917
And the sons of Israel came to buy among those that came; for the famine was in the land of Caanan.
Who acts: sons, famine · What happens: come, buy, be · To what, where: land
This is Genesis 42:5 · 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 (sons, famine), 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 | _ | 6 came | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sons | det |
| 3 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 came | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Israel | case |
| 5 | Israel | Israel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sons | nmod |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 buy | mark |
| 8 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 came | xcomp |
| 9 | among | among | ADP | _ | 10 those | case |
| 10 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 buy | obl |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 came | nsubj |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 those | acl:relcl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 land | punct |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 land | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 famine | det |
| 16 | famine | famine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 land | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 land | cop |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 land | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 land | det |
| 20 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | advcl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Caanan | case |
| 22 | Caanan | Caanan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 land | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the sons of Israel | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | buy | to-infinitive | the sons of Israel not said here | among those | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | come | past | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | is | past | the famine | the land | of Caanan | 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
וַיָּבֹ֙אוּ֙ בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לִשְׁבֹּ֖ר בְּת֣וֹךְ הַבָּאִ֑ים כִּֽי־הָיָ֥ה הָרָעָ֖ב בְּאֶ֥רֶץ כְּנָֽעַן׃
Genesis 42:5: 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:1365 of Mova's parse database.
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