Genesis 50:2 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father.
Who acts: Joseph · What happens: command, embalm · To what, where: servants, father · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Genesis 50:2 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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), 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 commanded | cc |
| 2 | Joseph | Joseph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 commanded | nsubj |
| 3 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 servants | nmod:poss |
| 5 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 commanded | obj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 physicians | det |
| 7 | physicians | physician | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 servants | appos |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 embalm | mark |
| 9 | embalm | embalm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 commanded | xcomp |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 father | nmod:poss |
| 11 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 embalm | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 commanded | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | command | past | Joseph | Joseph's servants | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent servant=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | embalm not said to happen | to-infinitive | Joseph not said here | Joseph's father | 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
וַיְצַ֨ו יוֹסֵ֤ף אֶת־עֲבָדָיו֙ אֶת־הָרֹ֣פְאִ֔ים לַחֲנֹ֖ט אֶת־אָבִ֑יו וַיַּחַנְט֥וּ הָרֹפְאִ֖ים אֶת־יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃
Genesis 50:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father.
- And the physicians embalmed Israel.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:GEN:1634 of Mova's parse database.
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