Genesis 44:8 · JPS 1917
Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks' mouths, we brought back unto thee out of the land of Canaan; how then should we steal out of thy lord's house silver or gold?
Who acts: we · What happens: find, bring back, steal · To what, where: money, mouths, land, silver
This is Genesis 44:8 · 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 | Behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 16 brought | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Behold | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 money | det |
| 4 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 brought | dislocated |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 found | punct |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 found | obj |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 found | nsubj |
| 8 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 money | acl:relcl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 mouths | case |
| 10 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 sacks | nmod:poss |
| 11 | sacks | sack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 mouths | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 11 sacks | case |
| 13 | mouths | mouth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 found | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 money | punct |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 brought | nsubj |
| 16 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | back | back | ADV | _ | 16 brought | advmod |
| 18 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 19 thee | case |
| 19 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 brought | obl |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 land | case |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 land | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 land | det |
| 23 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 brought | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Canaan | case |
| 25 | Canaan | Canaan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 land | nmod |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 steal | punct |
| 27 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 31 steal | advmod |
| 28 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 31 steal | advmod |
| 29 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 steal | aux |
| 30 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 steal | nsubj |
| 31 | steal | steal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 brought | parataxis |
| 32 | out | out | ADP | _ | 37 house | case |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 house | case |
| 34 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 35 lord | nmod:poss |
| 35 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 house | nmod:poss |
| 36 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 35 lord | case |
| 37 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 silver | nmod:poss |
| 38 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 steal | obj |
| 39 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 40 gold | cc |
| 40 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 silver | conj |
| 41 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 16 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- ask
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | we | the money | our sacks's mouths | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Topic | |||
| 2 | bring back | past | we | the land of Canaan | unto thee; the money dislocated | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent out land=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | steal | should | we | thy lord's house's silver or gold | then | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location silver=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
הֵ֣ן כֶּ֗סֶף אֲשֶׁ֤ר מָצָ֙אנוּ֙ בְּפִ֣י אַמְתְּחֹתֵ֔ינוּ הֱשִׁיבֹ֥נוּ אֵלֶ֖יךָ מֵאֶ֣רֶץ כְּנָ֑עַן וְאֵ֗יךְ נִגְנֹב֙ מִבֵּ֣ית אֲדֹנֶ֔יךָ כֶּ֖סֶף א֥וֹ זָהָֽב׃
Genesis 44:8: 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:1446 of Mova's parse database.
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