Genesis 47:3 · JPS 1917
And Pharaoh said unto his brethren: 'What is your occupation?' And they said unto Pharaoh: 'Thy servants are shepherds, both we, and our fathers.'
Who acts: Pharaoh, brethren, servants · What happens: say, be · To what, where: occupation, shepherds · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Genesis 47:3 · 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 (Pharaoh, brethren, servants), 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 | Pharaoh | Pharaoh | 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 | _ | 12 occupation | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 occupation | punct |
| 9 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 occupation | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 occupation | cop |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 occupation | nmod:poss |
| 12 | occupation | occupation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | ccomp |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 occupation | punct |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 occupation | punct |
| 15 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 said | cc |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 said | nsubj |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 18 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 19 Pharaoh | case |
| 19 | Pharaoh | Pharaoh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 said | obl |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 shepherds | punct |
| 21 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 shepherds | punct |
| 22 | Thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 23 servants | nmod:poss |
| 23 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 shepherds | nsubj |
| 24 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 shepherds | cop |
| 25 | shepherds | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 said | ccomp |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 we | punct |
| 27 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 28 we | cc:preconj |
| 28 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 fathers | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 fathers | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 fathers | cc |
| 31 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 fathers | nmod:poss |
| 32 | fathers | father | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 shepherds | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 34 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- wh-question
- act
- ask
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=ask
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Pharaoh | unto Pharaoh's brethren | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | your occupation | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | brethren | unto Pharaoh | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | Thy servants | shepherds and our fathers | 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
וַיֹּ֧אמֶר פַּרְעֹ֛ה אֶל־אֶחָ֖יו מַה־מַּעֲשֵׂיכֶ֑ם וַיֹּאמְר֣וּ אֶל־פַּרְעֹ֗ה רֹעֵ֥ה צֹאן֙ עֲבָדֶ֔יךָ גַּם־אֲנַ֖חְנוּ גַּם־אֲבוֹתֵֽינוּ׃
Genesis 47:3: 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:1540 of Mova's parse database.
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