Genesis 48:1 · JPS 1917
And it came to pass after these things, that one said to Joseph: 'Behold, thy father is sick.' And he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.
Who acts: it, one, father, Joseph · What happens: come, pass, say, be, take · To what, where: Joseph, two sons · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Genesis 48:1 · 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 (it, one, father, 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 came | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 pass | mark |
| 5 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 came | xcomp |
| 6 | after | after | ADP | _ | 8 things | case |
| 7 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 things | det |
| 8 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 pass | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 said | mark |
| 11 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | csubj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Joseph | case |
| 14 | Joseph | Joseph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obl |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 sick | punct |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 sick | punct |
| 17 | Behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 22 sick | discourse |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 sick | punct |
| 19 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 20 father | nmod:poss |
| 20 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sick | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 sick | cop |
| 22 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 said | ccomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 sick | punct |
| 24 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 sick | punct |
| 25 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 took | cc |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 took | nsubj |
| 27 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 him | case |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 took | obl |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 sons | nmod:poss |
| 31 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 sons | nummod |
| 32 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 took | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 Manasseh | punct |
| 34 | Manasseh | Manasseh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 sons | appos |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 Ephraim | cc |
| 36 | Ephraim | Ephraim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Manasseh | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | it | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | pass | to-infinitive | after this things | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | one | Joseph | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to joseph=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | is | present | thy father | sick property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | take | past | Joseph | Joseph's two sons | with him = he | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument son=Destination |
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
וַיְהִ֗י אַחֲרֵי֙ הַדְּבָרִ֣ים הָאֵ֔לֶּה וַיֹּ֣אמֶר לְיוֹסֵ֔ף הִנֵּ֥ה אָבִ֖יךָ חֹלֶ֑ה וַיִּקַּ֞ח אֶת־שְׁנֵ֤י בָנָיו֙ עִמּ֔וֹ אֶת־מְנַשֶּׁ֖ה וְאֶת־אֶפְרָֽיִם׃
Genesis 48:1: 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:1576 of Mova's parse database.
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