Genesis 42:37 · JPS 1917

And Reuben spoke unto his father, saying: 'Thou shalt slay my two sons, if I bring him not to thee; deliver him into my hand, and I will bring him back to thee.'

Who acts: Reuben, Thou, I · What happens: speak, say, slay, not bring, deliver, bring back · To what, where: two sons, Reuben, thee, hand · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Genesis 42:37 · 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 (Reuben, Thou, 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 spoke	cc
2	Reuben	Reuben	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 spoke	nsubj
3	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	unto	unto	ADP	_	6 father	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 father	nmod:poss
6	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spoke	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 saying	punct
8	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 spoke	advcl
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 slay	punct
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 slay	punct
11	Thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	13 slay	nsubj
12	shalt	shall	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	13 slay	aux
13	slay	slay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 saying	ccomp
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 sons	nmod:poss
15	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 sons	nummod
16	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 slay	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 bring	punct
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 bring	mark
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 bring	nsubj
20	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 slay	advcl
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 bring	obj
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 bring	advmod
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 thee	case
24	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	20 bring	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 deliver	punct
26	deliver	deliver	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 spoke	parataxis
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 deliver	obj
28	into	into	ADP	_	30 hand	case
29	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 hand	nmod:poss
30	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 deliver	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 bring	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 bring	cc
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 bring	nsubj
34	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 bring	aux
35	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 deliver	conj
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 bring	obj
37	back	back	ADV	_	35 bring	advmod
38	to	to	ADP	_	39 thee	case
39	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	35 bring	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 spoke	punct
41	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: other
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=other

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	Reuben			unto Reuben's father	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	gerund	Reuben not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	slay	shall	Thou	my two sons			vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
4	not bring a condition, not said to happen	present	I	Reuben	thee		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to thou=Destination
5	deliver	infinitive		Reuben	my hand		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
6	bring back	future	I	Reuben	thee		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to thou=Destination

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

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר רְאוּבֵן֙ אֶל־אָבִ֣יו לֵאמֹ֔ר אֶת־שְׁנֵ֤י בָנַי֙ תָּמִ֔ית אִם־לֹ֥א אֲבִיאֶ֖נּוּ אֵלֶ֑יךָ תְּנָ֤ה אֹתוֹ֙ עַל־יָדִ֔י וַאֲנִ֖י אֲשִׁיבֶ֥נּוּ אֵלֶֽיךָ׃

Genesis 42:37: 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:1398 of Mova's parse database.

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