Genesis 42:18 · JPS 1917
And Joseph said unto them the third day. 'This do, and live; for I fear God:
Who acts: Joseph, I · What happens: say, do, live, fear · To what, where: This, God · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Genesis 42:18 · 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, I), 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 said | cc |
| 2 | Joseph | Joseph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 5 them | case |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 day | det |
| 7 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 day | amod |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 11 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 do | obj |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 live | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 live | cc |
| 15 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 do | conj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 fear | punct |
| 17 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 fear | mark |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 fear | nsubj |
| 19 | fear | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 live | advcl |
| 20 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 fear | obj |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 do | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=request, form=imp, hedge=0
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Joseph | day | unto words = word | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | do | infinitive | This | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | live | infinitive | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | fear | present | I | God | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer god=Stimulus |
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
וַיֹּ֨אמֶר אֲלֵהֶ֤ם יוֹסֵף֙ בַּיּ֣וֹם הַשְּׁלִישִׁ֔י זֹ֥את עֲשׂ֖וּ וִֽחְי֑וּ אֶת־הָאֱלֹהִ֖ים אֲנִ֥י יָרֵֽא׃
Genesis 42:18: 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:1379 of Mova's parse database.
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