Genesis 46:34 · JPS 1917
that ye shall say: Thy servants have been keepers of cattle from our youth even until now, both we, and our fathers; that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination unto the Egyptians.'
Who acts: ye, servants, shepherd · What happens: say, be, dwell · To what, where: keepers, youth, land, abomination · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Genesis 46:34 · 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 (ye, servants, shepherd), 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 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 4 say | mark |
| 2 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 say | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | aux |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 keepers | punct |
| 6 | Thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 servants | nmod:poss |
| 7 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 keepers | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 keepers | aux |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 keepers | cop |
| 10 | keepers | keeper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 say | ccomp |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 cattle | case |
| 12 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 keepers | nmod |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 youth | case |
| 14 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 youth | nmod:poss |
| 15 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 keepers | nmod |
| 16 | even | even | ADV | _ | 18 now | advmod |
| 17 | until | until | ADP | _ | 18 now | case |
| 18 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 keepers | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 we | punct |
| 20 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 21 we | cc:preconj |
| 21 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 now | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 fathers | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 fathers | cc |
| 24 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 fathers | nmod:poss |
| 25 | fathers | father | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 we | conj |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 dwell | punct |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 dwell | mark |
| 28 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 30 dwell | nsubj |
| 29 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 dwell | aux |
| 30 | dwell | dwell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 say | parataxis |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 land | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 land | det |
| 33 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 dwell | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 Goshen | case |
| 35 | Goshen | Goshen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 land | nmod |
| 36 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 42 abomination | punct |
| 37 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 42 abomination | mark |
| 38 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 39 shepherd | det |
| 39 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 abomination | nsubj |
| 40 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 abomination | cop |
| 41 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 abomination | det |
| 42 | abomination | abomination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 say | parataxis |
| 43 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 45 Egyptians | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 Egyptians | det |
| 45 | Egyptians | Egyptian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 42 abomination | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
| 47 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | shall | ye | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present · perfect | Thy servants | keepers | our youth | of cattle | tree rules | ||
| 3 | dwell | may | ye | the land of Goshen | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in land=Location | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | every shepherd | a abomination | unto the Egyptians | 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
וַאֲמַרְתֶּ֗ם אַנְשֵׁ֨י מִקְנֶ֜ה הָי֤וּ עֲבָדֶ֙יךָ֙ מִנְּעוּרֵ֣ינוּ וְעַד־עַ֔תָּה גַּם־אֲנַ֖חְנוּ גַּם־אֲבֹתֵ֑ינוּ בַּעֲב֗וּר תֵּשְׁבוּ֙ בְּאֶ֣רֶץ גֹּ֔שֶׁן כִּֽי־תוֹעֲבַ֥ת מִצְרַ֖יִם כָּל־רֹ֥עֵה צֹֽאן׃
Genesis 46:34: 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:1537 of Mova's parse database.
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