Genesis 48:9 · JPS 1917
And Joseph said unto his father: 'They are my sons, whom God hath given me here.' And he said: 'Bring them, I pray thee, unto me, and I will bless them.'
Who acts: Joseph, sons, God, I · What happens: say, be, give, bring, pray, bless · To what, where: sons, me, thee · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Genesis 48:9 · 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, sons, God, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 said | cc |
| 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 father | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 father | nmod:poss |
| 6 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 sons | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 sons | punct |
| 9 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 sons | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 sons | cop |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 sons | nmod:poss |
| 12 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 said | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 given | punct |
| 14 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 given | obj |
| 15 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 given | nsubj |
| 16 | hath | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 given | aux |
| 17 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 sons | acl:relcl |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 given | iobj |
| 19 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 given | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 21 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 22 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 said | cc |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 said | nsubj |
| 24 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 25 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 27 Bring | punct |
| 26 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 27 Bring | punct |
| 27 | Bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 said | ccomp |
| 28 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 Bring | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 pray | punct |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 pray | nsubj |
| 31 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 Bring | parataxis |
| 32 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 31 pray | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 me | punct |
| 34 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 35 me | case |
| 35 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 pray | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 bless | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 bless | cc |
| 38 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 bless | nsubj |
| 39 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 bless | aux |
| 40 | bless | bless | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 Bring | conj |
| 41 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 bless | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 43 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- request
- voice
- character
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- changed act=request, polarity=pos
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Joseph | unto Joseph's father | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | sons = son | my sons | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | give | present · perfect | God | my sons | me | here | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient whom=Theme | ||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Joseph | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | bring | infinitive | sons = son | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||||
| 6 | pray | present | I | thee | unto me | tree rules | |||
| 7 | bless | future | I | sons = son | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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־אָבִ֔יו בָּנַ֣י הֵ֔ם אֲשֶׁר־נָֽתַן־לִ֥י אֱלֹהִ֖ים בָּזֶ֑ה וַיֹּאמַ֕ר קָֽחֶם־נָ֥א אֵלַ֖י וַאֲבָרֲכֵֽם׃
Genesis 48:9: 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:1584 of Mova's parse database.
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