Genesis 48:15 · JPS 1917
And he blessed Joseph, and said: 'The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God who hath been my shepherd all my life long unto this day,
Who acts: Israel, fathers, God · What happens: bless, say, walk, be · To what, where: Joseph, shepherd · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Genesis 48:15 · 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 (Israel, fathers, God), 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 blessed | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 blessed | nsubj |
| 3 | blessed | bless | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Joseph | Joseph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 blessed | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 blessed | conj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 God | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 God | punct |
| 10 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 God | det |
| 11 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | ccomp |
| 12 | before | before | ADP | _ | 13 whom | case |
| 13 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 walk | obl |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 fathers | nmod:poss |
| 15 | fathers | father | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 walk | nsubj |
| 16 | Abraham | Abraham | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 fathers | appos |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 Isaac | cc |
| 18 | Isaac | Isaac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Abraham | conj |
| 19 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 walk | aux |
| 20 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 God | acl:relcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 God | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 God | det |
| 23 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 God | appos |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 shepherd | nsubj |
| 25 | hath | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 shepherd | aux |
| 26 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 shepherd | cop |
| 27 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 shepherd | nmod:poss |
| 28 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 God | acl:relcl |
| 29 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 life | det:predet |
| 30 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 life | nmod:poss |
| 31 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 shepherd | obl:unmarked |
| 32 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 life | amod |
| 33 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 35 day | case |
| 34 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 35 day | det |
| 35 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 shepherd | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 blessed | 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 | bless | past | Israel | Joseph | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joseph=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Israel not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | walk | past · do-support | my fathers | before the God | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before whom=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | is a | present · perfect | the God | my shepherd | day | my life obl:unmarked | 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
וַיְבָ֥רֶךְ אֶת־יוֹסֵ֖ף וַיֹּאמַ֑ר הָֽאֱלֹהִ֡ים אֲשֶׁר֩ הִתְהַלְּכ֨וּ אֲבֹתַ֤י לְפָנָיו֙ אַבְרָהָ֣ם וְיִצְחָ֔ק הָֽאֱלֹהִים֙ הָרֹעֶ֣ה אֹתִ֔י מֵעוֹדִ֖י עַד־הַיּ֥וֹם הַזֶּֽה׃
Genesis 48:15: 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:1591 of Mova's parse database.
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