Genesis 47:17 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2
And Joseph gave them bread in exchange for the horses, and for the flocks, and for the herds, and for the asses; and he fed them with bread in exchange for all their cattle for that year.
Who acts: Joseph · What happens: give, feed · To what, where: bread, cattle, exchange
This is Genesis 47:17 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 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), 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 gave | cc |
| 2 | Joseph | Joseph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | iobj |
| 5 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 exchange | case |
| 7 | exchange | exchange | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 horses | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 horses | det |
| 10 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 exchange | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 flocks | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 flocks | cc |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 flocks | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 flocks | det |
| 15 | flocks | flock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 exchange | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 herds | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 herds | cc |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 herds | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 herds | det |
| 20 | herds | herd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 exchange | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 asses | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 asses | cc |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 asses | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 asses | det |
| 25 | asses | ass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 exchange | conj |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 fed | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 fed | cc |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 fed | nsubj |
| 29 | fed | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | conj |
| 30 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 fed | obj |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 bread | case |
| 32 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 fed | obl |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 exchange | case |
| 34 | exchange | exchange | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 fed | obl |
| 35 | for | for | ADP | _ | 38 cattle | case |
| 36 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 38 cattle | det:predet |
| 37 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 cattle | nmod:poss |
| 38 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 exchange | nmod |
| 39 | for | for | ADP | _ | 41 year | case |
| 40 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 41 year | det |
| 41 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 fed | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Joseph | bread | cattle | exchange for the horses and the flocks and the herds and the asses | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient bread=Theme | ||
| 2 | feed | past | Joseph | cattle | exchange for cattle's cattle | year | with bread | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Value in exchange=Location |
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
וַיָּבִ֣יאוּ אֶת־מִקְנֵיהֶם֮ אֶל־יוֹסֵף֒ וַיִּתֵּ֣ן לָהֶם֩ יוֹסֵ֨ף לֶ֜חֶם בַּסּוּסִ֗ים וּבְמִקְנֵ֥ה הַצֹּ֛אן וּבְמִקְנֵ֥ה הַבָּקָ֖ר וּבַחֲמֹרִ֑ים וַיְנַהֲלֵ֤ם בַּלֶּ֙חֶם֙ בְּכָל־מִקְנֵהֶ֔ם בַּשָּׁנָ֖ה הַהִֽוא׃
Genesis 47:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- And they brought their cattle unto Joseph.
- And Joseph gave them bread in exchange for the horses, and for the flocks, and for the herds, and for the asses; and he fed them with bread in exchange for all their cattle for that year.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:GEN:1558 of Mova's parse database.
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