Genesis 42:16 · JPS 1917

Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother, and ye shall be bound, that your words may be proved, whether there be truth in you; or else, as Pharaoh liveth, surely ye are spies.'

Who acts: you, brother, truth, Pharaoh, ye, your · What happens: send, let, fetch, bind, prove, be · To what, where: one, brother, ye, words, spies

This is Genesis 42:16 · 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 (you, brother, truth, Pharaoh), 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	Send	send	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Send	obj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 you	case
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 one	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 let	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 let	cc
7	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Send	conj
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 let	obj
9	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 let	xcomp
10	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 brother	nmod:poss
11	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fetch	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 bound	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 bound	cc
14	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	17 bound	nsubj:pass
15	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 bound	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 bound	aux:pass
17	bound	bind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Send	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 proved	punct
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 proved	mark
20	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 words	nmod:poss
21	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 proved	nsubj:pass
22	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 proved	aux
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 proved	aux:pass
24	proved	prove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 bound	advcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 be	punct
26	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	28 be	mark
27	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	28 be	expl
28	be	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 proved	advcl
29	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 be	nsubj
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 you	case
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 truth	nmod
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 spies	punct
33	or	or	CCONJ	_	43 spies	cc
34	else	else	ADV	_	43 spies	advmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 liveth	punct
36	as	as	SCONJ	_	38 liveth	mark
37	Pharaoh	Pharaoh	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 liveth	nsubj
38	liveth	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 spies	advcl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 liveth	punct
40	surely	surely	ADV	_	43 spies	advmod
41	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	43 spies	nsubj
42	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 spies	cop
43	spies	spy	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Send	conj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Send	punct
45	'	'	PUNCT	_	1 Send	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	send	imperative	you not said here	one of you			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
2	let	infinitive	you not said here	brother			tree rules
3	fetch	infinitive	brother not said here	your brother			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Theme
4	bind	shall · passive		ye			vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	prove	may · passive		your words			vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
6	be	present	truth in you		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	live	present	Pharaoh				vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	is a	present	ye	spies		else, surely property	tree rules
9	word		your				nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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

שִׁלְח֨וּ מִכֶּ֣ם אֶחָד֮ וְיִקַּ֣ח אֶת־אֲחִיכֶם֒ וְאַתֶּם֙ הֵאָ֣סְר֔וּ וְיִבָּֽחֲנוּ֙ דִּבְרֵיכֶ֔ם הַֽאֱמֶ֖ת אִתְּכֶ֑ם וְאִם־לֹ֕א חֵ֣י פַרְעֹ֔ה כִּ֥י מְרַגְּלִ֖ים אַתֶּֽם׃

Genesis 42:16: 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:1377 of Mova's parse database.

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