Genesis 48:18 · JPS 1917

And Joseph said unto his father: 'Not so, my father, for this is the first-born; put thy right hand upon his head.'

Who acts: Joseph, this · What happens: say, be, put · To what, where: first born, right hand, head · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Genesis 48:18 · 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, this), 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	_	10 so	punct
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 so	punct
9	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 so	advmod
10	so	so	ADV	_	3 said	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 father	punct
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 father	nmod:poss
13	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	vocative
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 born	punct
15	for	for	SCONJ	_	21 born	mark
16	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 born	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 born	cop
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 born	det
19	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	21 born	amod
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 first	punct
21	born	first-born	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	advcl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 put	punct
23	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
24	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	26 hand	nmod:poss
25	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 hand	amod
26	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 put	obj
27	upon	upon	ADP	_	29 head	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 head	nmod:poss
29	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 put	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
31	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: disagree
voice: character
polarity: neg
teacher: changed act=disagree

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Joseph			unto Joseph's father; my father vocative	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is a	present	this	the first born			tree rules
3	put	infinitive		thy right hand	Joseph's head		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme upon head=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

וַיֹּ֧אמֶר יוֹסֵ֛ף אֶל־אָבִ֖יו לֹא־כֵ֣ן אָבִ֑י כִּי־זֶ֣ה הַבְּכֹ֔ר שִׂ֥ים יְמִינְךָ֖ עַל־רֹאשֽׁוֹ׃

Genesis 48:18: 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:1594 of Mova's parse database.

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