Genesis 42:7 · JPS 1917

And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spoke roughly with them; and he said unto them: 'Whence come ye?' And they said: 'From the land of Canaan to buy food.'

Who acts: Joseph, ye, brethren · What happens: see, know, make, speak, say, come · To what, where: brethren, Joseph, land, food · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Genesis 42:7 · 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 (Joseph, ye, 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	_	3 saw	cc
2	Joseph	Joseph	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 brethren	nmod:poss
5	brethren	brethren	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 saw	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 knew	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 knew	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 knew	nsubj
9	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	conj
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 knew	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 made	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 made	cc
13	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	conj
14	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 made	obj
15	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 made	xcomp
16	unto	unto	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 strange	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 spoke	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 spoke	cc
20	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	conj
21	roughly	roughly	ADV	_	20 spoke	advmod
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 them	case
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 spoke	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 said	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 said	cc
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 said	nsubj
27	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	conj
28	unto	unto	ADP	_	29 them	case
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 said	obl
30	:	:	PUNCT	_	33 come	punct
31	'	'	PUNCT	_	33 come	punct
32	Whence	whence	ADV	PronType=Int	33 come	advmod
33	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 said	ccomp
34	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	33 come	nsubj
35	?	?	PUNCT	_	33 come	punct
36	'	'	PUNCT	_	33 come	punct
37	And	and	CCONJ	_	39 said	cc
38	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 said	nsubj
39	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	conj
40	:	:	PUNCT	_	44 land	punct
41	'	'	PUNCT	_	44 land	punct
42	From	from	ADP	_	44 land	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 land	det
44	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 said	obl
45	of	of	ADP	_	46 Canaan	case
46	Canaan	Canaan	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 land	nmod
47	to	to	PART	_	48 buy	mark
48	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 land	acl
49	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 buy	obj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct
51	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct

Pragmatics

form: yes/no question
act: ask
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed form=q, act=ask

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	Joseph	Joseph's brethren			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer brethren=Stimulus
2	know	past	Joseph	brethren			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
3	make	past	Joseph not said here	Joseph		strange property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset himself=Product
4	speak speech: other	past	Joseph not said here			with brethren; roughly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with they=Co-Agent
5	say speech: assert	past	Joseph			unto brethren	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	come	present	ye			whence property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	say speech: assert	past	brethren		the land of Canaan		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
8	buy	to-infinitive	brethren not said here	food			vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme

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

וַיַּ֥רְא יוֹסֵ֛ף אֶת־אֶחָ֖יו וַיַּכִּרֵ֑ם וַיִּתְנַכֵּ֨ר אֲלֵיהֶ֜ם וַיְדַבֵּ֧ר אִתָּ֣ם קָשׁ֗וֹת וַיֹּ֤אמֶר אֲלֵהֶם֙ מֵאַ֣יִן בָּאתֶ֔ם וַיֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ מֵאֶ֥רֶץ כְּנַ֖עַן לִשְׁבָּר־אֹֽכֶל׃

Genesis 42:7: 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:1368 of Mova's parse database.

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