Genesis 47:20 · JPS 1917

So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine was sore upon them; and the land became Pharaoh's.

Who acts: Joseph, Egyptians, famine, land · What happens: buy, sell, be, become · To what, where: land, field, man

This is Genesis 47:20 · 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 (Joseph, Egyptians, famine, 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 bought	advmod
2	Joseph	Joseph	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 bought	nsubj
3	bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 land	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 land	det
6	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bought	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Egypt	case
8	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 land	nmod
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 Pharaoh	case
10	Pharaoh	Pharaoh	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 bought	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 sold	punct
12	for	for	SCONJ	_	15 sold	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Egyptians	det
14	Egyptians	egyptian	PROPN	Number=Plur	15 sold	nsubj
15	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bought	advcl
16	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	17 man	det
17	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sold	iobj
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 field	nmod:poss
19	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sold	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 sore	punct
21	because	because	SCONJ	_	25 sore	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 famine	det
23	famine	famine	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sore	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 sore	cop
25	sore	sore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 sold	advcl
26	upon	upon	ADP	_	27 them	case
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 sore	obl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 became	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 became	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 land	det
31	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 became	nsubj
32	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bought	conj
33	Pharaoh	Pharaoh	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 became	xcomp
34	's	's	PART	_	33 Pharaoh	case
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 bought	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	buy	past	Joseph	all land of Egypt		for Pharaoh	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent land=Theme for pharaoh=Beneficiary
2	sell	past	the Egyptians	land's field	every man		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent man=Recipient field=Theme
3	is	past	the famine			upon Egyptians = egyptian; sore property	tree rules
4	become	past	the land				vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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

וַיִּ֨קֶן יוֹסֵ֜ף אֶת־כָּל־אַדְמַ֤ת מִצְרַ֙יִם֙ לְפַרְעֹ֔ה כִּֽי־מָכְר֤וּ מִצְרַ֙יִם֙ אִ֣ישׁ שָׂדֵ֔הוּ כִּֽי־חָזַ֥ק עֲלֵהֶ֖ם הָרָעָ֑ב וַתְּהִ֥י הָאָ֖רֶץ לְפַרְעֹֽה׃

Genesis 47:20: 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:1561 of Mova's parse database.

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