Genesis 42:21 · JPS 1917

And they said one to another: 'We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.'

Who acts: words, We, brother, distress · What happens: say, be, see, beseech, not hear, come · To what, where: one, another, distress, us, soul · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Genesis 42:21 · 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 (words, We, brother, distress), 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	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 said	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 another	case
6	another	another	PRON	PronType=Ind	4 one	nmod
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 guilty	punct
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 guilty	punct
9	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 guilty	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 guilty	cop
11	verily	verily	ADV	_	12 guilty	advmod
12	guilty	guilty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 said	ccomp
13	concerning	concern	ADP	_	15 brother	case
14	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 brother	nmod:poss
15	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 guilty	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 saw	punct
17	in	in	SCONJ	_	20 saw	mark
18	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 in	fixed
19	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 saw	nsubj
20	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 guilty	advcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 distress	det
22	distress	distress	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 saw	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 soul	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 soul	nmod:poss
25	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 distress	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 besought	punct
27	when	when	SCONJ	_	29 besought	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 besought	nsubj
29	besought	beseech	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 saw	advcl
30	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 besought	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 hear	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 hear	cc
33	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 hear	nsubj
34	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 hear	aux
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 hear	advmod
36	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 saw	conj
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 come	punct
38	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	42 come	advmod
39	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 come	aux
40	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	41 distress	det
41	distress	distress	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 come	nsubj
42	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	parataxis
43	upon	upon	ADP	_	44 us	case
44	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 come	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
46	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: suggest
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	words = word	one	another		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Topic to another=Recipient
2	is	present	We			concern our brother; guilty, verily property	tree rules
3	see	past	we	the distress of brother's soul			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer distress=Stimulus
4	beseech	past	brother	us			tree rules
5	not hear	would	we				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
6	come	present	this distress			upon us; therefore property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon we=Location
7	distress			brother's soul			nom distress «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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

וַיֹּאמְר֞וּ אִ֣ישׁ אֶל־אָחִ֗יו אֲבָל֮ אֲשֵׁמִ֣ים ׀ אֲנַחְנוּ֮ עַל־אָחִינוּ֒ אֲשֶׁ֨ר רָאִ֜ינוּ צָרַ֥ת נַפְשׁ֛וֹ בְּהִתְחַֽנְנ֥וֹ אֵלֵ֖ינוּ וְלֹ֣א שָׁמָ֑עְנוּ עַל־כֵּן֙ בָּ֣אָה אֵלֵ֔ינוּ הַצָּרָ֖ה הַזֹּֽאת׃

Genesis 42:21: 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:1382 of Mova's parse database.

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