Genesis 48:20 · JPS 1917
And he blessed them that day, saying: 'By thee shall Israel bless, saying: God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh.' And he set Ephraim before Manasseh.
Who acts: father, Israel, God · What happens: bless, say, make, set · To what, where: peoples, thee, Ephraim · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Genesis 48:20 · 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 (father, Israel, 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 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 blessed | obj |
| 5 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 day | det |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 blessed | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 saying | punct |
| 8 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 blessed | advcl |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 bless | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 bless | punct |
| 11 | By | by | ADP | _ | 12 thee | case |
| 12 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 bless | obl |
| 13 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 bless | aux |
| 14 | Israel | Israel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 bless | nsubj |
| 15 | bless | bless | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 saying | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 saying | punct |
| 17 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 bless | advcl |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 make | punct |
| 19 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 make | nsubj |
| 20 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Sub VerbForm=Fin | 17 saying | ccomp |
| 21 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 20 make | obj |
| 22 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 Ephraim | case |
| 23 | Ephraim | Ephraim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 make | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 Manasseh | cc |
| 25 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 Manasseh | case |
| 26 | Manasseh | Manasseh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Ephraim | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 make | punct |
| 28 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 make | punct |
| 29 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 set | cc |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 set | nsubj |
| 31 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 blessed | conj |
| 32 | Ephraim | Ephraim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 set | obj |
| 33 | before | before | ADP | _ | 34 Manasseh | case |
| 34 | Manasseh | Manasseh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 set | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 blessed | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bless | past | father | peoples = people | day | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | father not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | bless | shall | Israel | by thee | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | gerund | Israel not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | make | infinitive | God | thee | as Ephraim and Manasseh | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Product | |||
| 6 | set | past | father | Ephraim | before Manasseh | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ephraim=Theme before manasseh=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
וַיְבָ֨רֲכֵ֜ם בַּיּ֣וֹם הַהוּא֮ לֵאמוֹר֒ בְּךָ֗ יְבָרֵ֤ךְ יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר יְשִֽׂמְךָ֣ אֱלֹהִ֔ים כְּאֶפְרַ֖יִם וְכִמְנַשֶּׁ֑ה וַיָּ֥שֶׂם אֶת־אֶפְרַ֖יִם לִפְנֵ֥י מְנַשֶּֽׁה׃
Genesis 48:20: 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:1596 of Mova's parse database.
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