Genesis 43:20 · JPS 1917
and said: 'Oh my lord, we came indeed down at the first time to buy food.
Who acts: we · What happens: say, come down, buy · To what, where: food · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Genesis 43:20 · 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 (we), 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 | _ | 2 said | cc |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 came | punct |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 came | punct |
| 5 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 lord | discourse |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 lord | nmod:poss |
| 7 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | vocative |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 came | punct |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 came | nsubj |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | ccomp |
| 11 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 10 came | advmod |
| 12 | down | down | ADV | _ | 10 came | advmod |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 time | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 time | det |
| 15 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 16 time | amod |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | obl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 buy | mark |
| 18 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 came | advcl |
| 19 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 buy | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | come down | past | we | time | my lord vocative; down, indeed property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | buy | to-infinitive | we not said here | food | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=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
וַיֹּאמְר֖וּ בִּ֣י אֲדֹנִ֑י יָרֹ֥ד יָרַ֛דְנוּ בַּתְּחִלָּ֖ה לִשְׁבָּר־אֹֽכֶל׃
Genesis 43:20: 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:1420 of Mova's parse database.
The tree and the speech act come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.
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