Genesis 43:9 · JPS 1917

I will be surety for him; of my hand shalt thou require him; if I bring him not unto thee, and set him before thee, then let me bear the blame for ever.

Who acts: I, thou, me · What happens: be, require, not bring, set, let, bear · To what, where: surety, father, thee, me, blame

This is Genesis 43:9 · 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 (I, thou, me), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 surety	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 surety	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 surety	cop
4	surety	surety	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 surety	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 require	punct
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 hand	case
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 hand	nmod:poss
10	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 require	obl
11	shalt	shall	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	13 require	aux
12	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	13 require	nsubj
13	require	require	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 surety	parataxis
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 require	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 bring	punct
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 bring	mark
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 bring	nsubj
18	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 let	advcl
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 bring	obj
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 bring	advmod
21	unto	unto	ADP	_	22 thee	case
22	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	18 bring	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 set	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 set	cc
25	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 bring	conj
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 set	obj
27	before	before	ADP	_	28 thee	case
28	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	25 set	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 let	punct
30	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 let	advmod
31	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 surety	parataxis
32	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 let	obj
33	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 let	xcomp
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 blame	det
35	blame	blame	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 bear	obj
36	for	for	ADP	_	37 ever	case
37	ever	ever	ADV	_	33 bear	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 surety	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: promise
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=promise

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	future	I	surety				for father	tree rules
2	require	shall	thou	father				of my hand	vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Precondition
3	not bring a condition, not said to happen	present	I		father			unto thee	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination
4	set	infinitive	I not said here	father		thee			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme before thou=Destination
5	let	infinitive		me			then		tree rules
6	bear	infinitive	me not said here	the blame					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer blame=Stimulus for ever=Attribute

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

אָֽנֹכִי֙ אֶֽעֶרְבֶ֔נּוּ מִיָּדִ֖י תְּבַקְשֶׁ֑נּוּ אִם־לֹ֨א הֲבִיאֹתִ֤יו אֵלֶ֙יךָ֙ וְהִצַּגְתִּ֣יו לְפָנֶ֔יךָ וְחָטָ֥אתִֽי לְךָ֖ כָּל־הַיָּמִֽים׃

Genesis 43:9: 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:1408 of Mova's parse database.

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