Genesis 42:24 · JPS 1917
And he turned himself about from them, and wept; and he returned to them, and spoke to them, and took Simeon from among them, and bound him before their eyes.
Who acts: Joseph · What happens: turn, weep, return, speak, take, bound · To what, where: Joseph, words, Simeon · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Genesis 42:24 · 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), 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 turned | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 turned | obj |
| 5 | about | about | ADV | _ | 3 turned | advmod |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 turned | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 wept | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 wept | cc |
| 10 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 turned | conj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 returned | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 returned | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 returned | nsubj |
| 14 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 turned | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 them | case |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 returned | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 spoke | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 spoke | cc |
| 19 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 returned | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 them | case |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 spoke | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 took | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 took | cc |
| 24 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 returned | conj |
| 25 | Simeon | Simeon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 took | obj |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 them | case |
| 27 | among | among | ADP | _ | 28 them | case |
| 28 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 took | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 bound | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 bound | cc |
| 31 | bound | bound | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 took | conj |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 bound | obj |
| 33 | before | before | ADP | _ | 35 eyes | case |
| 34 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 35 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 bound | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | Joseph | Joseph | from words = word; about property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent himself=Theme from they=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | weep | past | Joseph not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | return | past | Joseph | words = word | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to they=Result | ||||
| 4 | speak speech: other | past | Joseph not said here | words = word | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to they=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | take | past | Joseph not said here | Simeon | from words = word | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent simeon=Theme from they=Initial_Location | |||
| 6 | bound | past | Joseph not said here | Joseph | before words's eyes | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location he=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
וַיִּסֹּ֥ב מֵֽעֲלֵיהֶ֖ם וַיֵּ֑בְךְּ וַיָּ֤שָׁב אֲלֵהֶם֙ וַיְדַבֵּ֣ר אֲלֵהֶ֔ם וַיִּקַּ֤ח מֵֽאִתָּם֙ אֶת־שִׁמְע֔וֹן וַיֶּאֱסֹ֥ר אֹת֖וֹ לְעֵינֵיהֶֽם׃
Genesis 42:24: 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:1385 of Mova's parse database.
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