Genesis 45:4 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
And Joseph said unto his brethren: 'Come near to me, I pray you.' And they came near.
Who acts: Joseph, I, brethren · What happens: say, come, pray · To what, where: me, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Genesis 45:4 · 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 (Joseph, I, brethren), 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 | Joseph | Joseph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 6 brethren | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 brethren | nmod:poss |
| 6 | brethren | brethren | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 said | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 Come | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 Come | punct |
| 9 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 10 | near | near | ADV | _ | 9 Come | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 me | case |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 Come | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Come | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 pray | nsubj |
| 15 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 Come | parataxis |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 pray | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 Come | punct |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 Come | punct |
| 19 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 came | cc |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 came | nsubj |
| 21 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 22 | near | near | ADV | _ | 21 came | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- other
- act
- request
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=other
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Joseph | unto Joseph's brethren | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | come | infinitive | me | near property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | pray | present | I | you | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | come | past | brethren | near property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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
וַיֹּ֨אמֶר יוֹסֵ֧ף אֶל־אֶחָ֛יו גְּשׁוּ־נָ֥א אֵלַ֖י וַיִּגָּ֑שׁוּ וַיֹּ֗אמֶר אֲנִי֙ יוֹסֵ֣ף אֲחִיכֶ֔ם אֲשֶׁר־מְכַרְתֶּ֥ם אֹתִ֖י מִצְרָֽיְמָה׃
Genesis 45:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- And Joseph said unto his brethren: 'Come near to me, I pray you.' And they came near.
- And he said: 'I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:GEN:1477 of Mova's parse database.
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