Genesis 44:7 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
And they said unto him: 'Wherefore speaketh my lord such words as these?
Who acts: men, lord · What happens: say, speak · To what, where: such words · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Genesis 44:7 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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 (men, lord), 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 Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | obl |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 speaketh | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 speaketh | punct |
| 8 | Wherefore | wherefore | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 speaketh | advmod |
| 9 | speaketh | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | ccomp |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 lord | nmod:poss |
| 11 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 speaketh | nsubj |
| 12 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 words | amod |
| 13 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 speaketh | obj |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 these | case |
| 15 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 13 words | nmod |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- ask
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=q
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | men = man | unto lord | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | present | my lord | such words | as these; wherefore property | tree rules |
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
וַיֹּאמְר֣וּ אֵלָ֔יו לָ֚מָּה יְדַבֵּ֣ר אֲדֹנִ֔י כַּדְּבָרִ֖ים הָאֵ֑לֶּה חָלִ֙ילָה֙ לַעֲבָדֶ֔יךָ מֵעֲשׂ֖וֹת כַּדָּבָ֥ר הַזֶּֽה׃
Genesis 44:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- And they said unto him: 'Wherefore speaketh my lord such words as these?
- Far be it from thy servants that they should do such a thing.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:GEN:1444 of Mova's parse database.
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