Genesis 47:23 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
Then Joseph said unto the people: 'Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh.
Who acts: Joseph, I · What happens: say, buy · To what, where: land, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Genesis 47:23 · 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 (Joseph, I), 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 | Then | then | ADV | _ | 3 said | advmod |
| 2 | Joseph | Joseph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 6 people | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 people | det |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 said | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 bought | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 bought | punct |
| 9 | Behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 13 bought | discourse |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Behold | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 bought | nsubj |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 bought | aux |
| 13 | bought | buy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 said | ccomp |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 bought | obj |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 day | det |
| 16 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bought | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 land | cc |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 land | nmod:poss |
| 19 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bought | obj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 Pharaoh | case |
| 21 | Pharaoh | Pharaoh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 bought | obl |
| 22 | . | . | 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 | Joseph | then | unto the people | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | buy | present · perfect | I | your land | you | day | for Pharaoh | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary land=Theme |
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
וַיֹּ֤אמֶר יוֹסֵף֙ אֶל־הָעָ֔ם הֵן֩ קָנִ֨יתִי אֶתְכֶ֥ם הַיּ֛וֹם וְאֶת־אַדְמַתְכֶ֖ם לְפַרְעֹ֑ה הֵֽא־לָכֶ֣ם זֶ֔רַע וּזְרַעְתֶּ֖ם אֶת־הָאֲדָמָֽה׃
Genesis 47:23: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- Then Joseph said unto the people: 'Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh.
- Lo, here is seed for you, and ye shall sow the land.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:GEN:1564 of Mova's parse database.
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