Genesis 47:4 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
And they said unto Pharaoh: 'To sojourn in the land are we come; for there is no pasture for thy servants' flocks; for the famine is sore in the land of Canaan.
Who acts: servants, we, pasture, famine · What happens: say, sojourn, come, be · To what, where: land · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Genesis 47:4 · 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 (servants, we, pasture, famine), 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 Pharaoh | case |
| 5 | Pharaoh | Pharaoh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | obl |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 come | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 come | punct |
| 8 | To | to | PART | _ | 9 sojourn | mark |
| 9 | sojourn | sojourn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 come | advcl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 land | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 land | det |
| 12 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sojourn | obl |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 come | aux |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 come | nsubj |
| 15 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 said | ccomp |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 is | punct |
| 17 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 is | mark |
| 18 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 19 is | expl |
| 19 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 come | advcl |
| 20 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 21 pasture | det |
| 21 | pasture | pasture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 is | nsubj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 flocks | case |
| 23 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 24 servants | nmod:poss |
| 24 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 flocks | nmod:poss |
| 25 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 24 servants | case |
| 26 | flocks | flock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 pasture | nmod |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 sore | punct |
| 28 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 32 sore | mark |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 famine | det |
| 30 | famine | famine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 sore | nsubj |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 sore | cop |
| 32 | sore | sore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 is | advcl |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 land | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 land | det |
| 35 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 sore | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 Canaan | case |
| 37 | Canaan | Canaan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 land | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | servants = servant | unto Pharaoh | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | sojourn | to-infinitive | we not said here | the land | vn weekend-56 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in land=Location | ||||
| 3 | come | present · passive | we | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | be | present | no pasture for thy servants's flocks | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | present | the famine | the land of Canaan | sore 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 אֶל־פַּרְעֹ֗ה לָג֣וּר בָּאָרֶץ֮ בָּאנוּ֒ כִּי־אֵ֣ין מִרְעֶ֗ה לַצֹּאן֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר לַעֲבָדֶ֔יךָ כִּֽי־כָבֵ֥ד הָרָעָ֖ב בְּאֶ֣רֶץ כְּנָ֑עַן וְעַתָּ֛ה יֵֽשְׁבוּ־נָ֥א עֲבָדֶ֖יךָ בְּאֶ֥רֶץ גֹּֽשֶׁן׃
Genesis 47:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- And they said unto Pharaoh: 'To sojourn in the land are we come; for there is no pasture for thy servants' flocks; for the famine is sore in the land of Canaan.
- Now therefore, we pray thee, let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen.'
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:GEN:1541 of Mova's parse database.
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