Genesis 48:17 · JPS 1917
And when Joseph saw that his father was laying his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him, and he held up his father's hand, to remove it from Ephraim's head unto Manasseh's head.
Who acts: Joseph, father, hand · What happens: see, lay, displease, hold up, remove · To what, where: right hand, head, father, hand · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Genesis 48:17 · 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, father, hand), 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 | _ | 20 displeased | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 saw | mark |
| 3 | Joseph | Joseph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 displeased | advcl |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 laying | mark |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 father | nmod:poss |
| 7 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 laying | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 laying | aux |
| 9 | laying | lay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 saw | ccomp |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 hand | nmod:poss |
| 11 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 hand | amod |
| 12 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 laying | obj |
| 13 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 15 head | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 head | det |
| 15 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 laying | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Ephraim | case |
| 17 | Ephraim | Ephraim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 head | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 displeased | punct |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 displeased | nsubj |
| 20 | displeased | displease | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 displeased | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 held | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 held | cc |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 held | nsubj |
| 25 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 displeased | conj |
| 26 | up | up | ADP | _ | 25 held | compound:prt |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 father | nmod:poss |
| 28 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 hand | nmod:poss |
| 29 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 28 father | case |
| 30 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 held | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 remove | punct |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 remove | mark |
| 33 | remove | remove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 held | advcl |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 remove | obj |
| 35 | from | from | ADP | _ | 38 head | case |
| 36 | Ephraim | Ephraim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 head | nmod:poss |
| 37 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 36 Ephraim | case |
| 38 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 remove | obl |
| 39 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 42 head | case |
| 40 | Manasseh | Manasseh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 head | nmod:poss |
| 41 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 40 Manasseh | case |
| 42 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 remove | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 displeased | punct |
Pragmatics
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Joseph | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | lay | past · progressive | Joseph's father | father's right hand | the head of Ephraim | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme upon head=Destination | |||
| 3 | displease | past | hand | father | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | hold up | past | father | father's father's hand | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot hand=Theme | ||||
| 5 | remove | to-infinitive | father not said here | hand | Ephraim's head | unto Manasseh's head | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Theme from head=Source |
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
וַיַּ֣רְא יוֹסֵ֗ף כִּי־יָשִׁ֨ית אָבִ֧יו יַד־יְמִינ֛וֹ עַל־רֹ֥אשׁ אֶפְרַ֖יִם וַיֵּ֣רַע בְּעֵינָ֑יו וַיִּתְמֹ֣ךְ יַד־אָבִ֗יו לְהָסִ֥יר אֹתָ֛הּ מֵעַ֥ל רֹאשׁ־אֶפְרַ֖יִם עַל־רֹ֥אשׁ מְנַשֶּֽׁה׃
Genesis 48:17: 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:1593 of Mova's parse database.
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