Genesis 43:28 · JPS 1917

And they said: 'Thy servant our father is well, he is yet alive.' And they bowed the head, and made obeisance.

Who acts: sacks, servant, Joseph · What happens: say, be, bow, make · To what, where: head, obeisance · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Genesis 43:28 · 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 (sacks, servant, 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 said	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 well	punct
6	Thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	7 servant	nmod:poss
7	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 well	nsubj
8	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 father	nmod:poss
9	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 servant	appos
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 well	cop
11	well	well	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 said	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 well	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 alive	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 alive	cop
15	yet	yet	ADV	_	16 alive	advmod
16	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 well	parataxis
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 well	punct
18	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 well	punct
19	And	and	CCONJ	_	21 bowed	cc
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 bowed	nsubj
21	bowed	bow	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 head	det
23	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bowed	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 made	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 made	cc
26	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 bowed	conj
27	obeisance	obeisance	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 made	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: request
voice: character
polarity: pos
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	sacks = sack				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	Thy servant			well property	tree rules
3	is	present	Joseph		yet	alive property	tree rules
4	bow	past	sacks = sack	the head			vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Topic
5	make	past	sacks = sack not said here	obeisance			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset obeisance=Product

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

וַיֹּאמְר֗וּ שָׁל֛וֹם לְעַבְדְּךָ֥ לְאָבִ֖ינוּ עוֹדֶ֣נּוּ חָ֑י וַֽיִּקְּד֖וּ וַיִּֽשְׁתַּחֲוּֽוּ׃

Genesis 43:28: 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:1430 of Mova's parse database.

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