Genesis 42:6 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2
And Joseph's brethren came, and bowed down to him with their faces to the earth.
Who acts: brethren · What happens: come, bow down · To what, where: Joseph
This is Genesis 42:6 · 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 (brethren), 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 | _ | 5 came | cc |
| 2 | Joseph | Joseph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 brethren | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Joseph | case |
| 4 | brethren | brethren | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bowed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 bowed | cc |
| 8 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 9 | down | down | ADV | _ | 8 bowed | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 bowed | obl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 faces | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 faces | nmod:poss |
| 14 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 bowed | obl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 earth | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 earth | det |
| 17 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bowed | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Joseph's brethren | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | bow down | past | Joseph's brethren not said here | Joseph | with brethren's faces; to the earth; down property | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.pivot»: agent=Agent to he=Pivot |
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
וְיוֹסֵ֗ף ה֚וּא הַשַּׁלִּ֣יט עַל־הָאָ֔רֶץ ה֥וּא הַמַּשְׁבִּ֖יר לְכָל־עַ֣ם הָאָ֑רֶץ וַיָּבֹ֙אוּ֙ אֲחֵ֣י יוֹסֵ֔ף וַיִּשְׁתַּֽחֲווּ־ל֥וֹ אַפַּ֖יִם אָֽרְצָה׃
Genesis 42:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- And Joseph was the governor over the land; he it was that sold to all the people of the land.
- And Joseph's brethren came, and bowed down to him with their faces to the earth.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:GEN:1367 of Mova's parse database.
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