Genesis 47:15 · JPS 1917

And when the money was all spent in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came unto Joseph, and said: 'Give us bread; for why should we die in thy presence? for our money faileth.'

Who acts: Egyptians, we, money · What happens: spend, come, say, give, die, fail · To what, where: money, land, bread, us · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Genesis 47:15 · 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 (Egyptians, we, money), 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	_	24 came	cc
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	7 spent	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 money	det
4	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spent	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 spent	aux:pass
6	all	all	ADV	_	7 spent	advmod
7	spent	spend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 came	advcl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 land	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 land	det
10	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spent	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 Egypt	case
12	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 land	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 came	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 came	cc
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 land	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 land	det
17	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 came	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 Canaan	case
19	Canaan	Canaan	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 land	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Canaan	punct
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 Egyptians	det:predet
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Egyptians	det
23	Egyptians	Egyptian	PROPN	Number=Plur	24 came	nsubj
24	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	unto	unto	ADP	_	26 Joseph	case
26	Joseph	Joseph	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 came	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 said	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 said	cc
29	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 came	conj
30	:	:	PUNCT	_	32 Give	punct
31	'	'	PUNCT	_	32 Give	punct
32	Give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 said	ccomp
33	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 Give	iobj
34	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 Give	obj
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 die	punct
36	for	for	SCONJ	_	40 die	mark
37	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	40 die	advmod
38	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 die	aux
39	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 die	nsubj
40	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 Give	parataxis
41	in	in	ADP	_	43 presence	case
42	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	43 presence	nmod:poss
43	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 die	obl
44	?	?	PUNCT	_	40 die	punct
45	for	for	SCONJ	_	48 faileth	mark
46	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 money	nmod:poss
47	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 faileth	nsubj
48	faileth	fail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 Give	parataxis
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 came	punct
50	'	'	PUNCT	_	24 came	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	spend	past · passive		the money		the land of Egypt	all property	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset
2	come	past	all Egyptians			the land of Canaan	unto Joseph	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in land=Location
3	say speech: assert	past	all Egyptians not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	give	infinitive		bread	us			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient bread=Theme
5	die	should	we				in thy presence	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in presence=Attribute
6	fail	present	our money					vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

וַיִּתֹּ֣ם הַכֶּ֗סֶף מֵאֶ֣רֶץ מִצְרַיִם֮ וּמֵאֶ֣רֶץ כְּנַעַן֒ וַיָּבֹאוּ֩ כָל־מִצְרַ֨יִם אֶל־יוֹסֵ֤ף לֵאמֹר֙ הָֽבָה־לָּ֣נוּ לֶ֔חֶם וְלָ֥מָּה נָמ֖וּת נֶגְדֶּ֑ךָ כִּ֥י אָפֵ֖ס כָּֽסֶף׃

Genesis 47:15: 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:1555 of Mova's parse database.

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