Genesis 47:19 · JPS 1917

Wherefore should we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be bondmen unto Pharaoh; and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land be not desolate.'

Who acts: we, you, land · What happens: die, buy, be, give, live, not die · To what, where: us, bondmen, seed

This is Genesis 47:19 · 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 (we, you, land), 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	Wherefore	wherefore	ADV	PronType=Int	4 die	advmod
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 die	aux
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 die	nsubj
4	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 buy	parataxis
5	before	before	ADP	_	7 eyes	case
6	thine	thine	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	7 eyes	nmod:poss
7	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 die	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 we	punct
9	both	both	CCONJ	_	10 we	cc:preconj
10	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 we	appos
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 land	cc
12	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 land	nmod:poss
13	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 we	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 die	punct
15	buy	buy	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 buy	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 land	cc
18	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 land	nmod:poss
19	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 us	conj
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 bread	case
21	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 buy	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 bondmen	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 bondmen	cc
24	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 bondmen	nsubj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 land	cc
26	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 land	nmod:poss
27	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 we	conj
28	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 bondmen	aux
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 bondmen	cop
30	bondmen	bondman	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 buy	conj
31	unto	unto	ADP	_	32 Pharaoh	case
32	Pharaoh	Pharaoh	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 bondmen	nmod
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 give	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 give	cc
35	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	15 buy	conj
36	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 give	iobj
37	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 give	obj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 live	punct
39	that	that	SCONJ	_	42 live	mark
40	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 live	nsubj
41	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 live	aux
42	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 give	advcl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 die	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 die	cc
45	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	46 die	advmod
46	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 live	conj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 desolate	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 desolate	cc
49	that	that	SCONJ	_	54 desolate	mark
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 land	det
51	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 desolate	nsubj
52	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	54 desolate	cop
53	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	54 desolate	advmod
54	desolate	desolate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 live	conj
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 buy	punct
56	'	'	PUNCT	_	15 buy	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: request
voice: character
polarity: neg
indirect: yes
teacher: changed act=request

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	die	should	we			before thine eyes	wherefore property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	buy	imperative	you not said here	us			for bread	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent we=Theme for bread=Beneficiary
3	is a	future	we	bondmen			unto Pharaoh	tree rules
4	give	infinitive	you not said here	seed	us			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient seed=Theme
5	live	may	we					vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	not die	infinitive	we not said here					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
7	not is	infinitive	the land				desolate 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

לָ֧מָּה נָמ֣וּת לְעֵינֶ֗יךָ גַּם־אֲנַ֙חְנוּ֙ גַּ֣ם אַדְמָתֵ֔נוּ קְנֵֽה־אֹתָ֥נוּ וְאֶת־אַדְמָתֵ֖נוּ בַּלָּ֑חֶם וְנִֽהְיֶ֞ה אֲנַ֤חְנוּ וְאַדְמָתֵ֙נוּ֙ עֲבָדִ֣ים לְפַרְעֹ֔ה וְתֶן־זֶ֗רַע וְנִֽחְיֶה֙ וְלֹ֣א נָמ֔וּת וְהָאֲדָמָ֖ה לֹ֥א תֵשָֽׁם׃

Genesis 47:19: 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:1560 of Mova's parse database.

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