Genesis 50:17 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2
And now, we pray thee, forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of thy father.' And Joseph wept when they spoke unto him.
Who acts: we, Joseph, transgression, servants · What happens: pray, forgive, weep, speak, transgress · To what, where: thee, transgression · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Genesis 50:17 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 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 (we, Joseph, transgression, servants), 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 | _ | 5 pray | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 pray | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 now | punct |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 pray | nsubj |
| 5 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 pray | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 forgive | punct |
| 8 | forgive | forgive | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 pray | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 transgression | det |
| 10 | transgression | transgression | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 forgive | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 servants | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 servants | det |
| 13 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 transgression | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 God | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 God | det |
| 16 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 servants | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 father | case |
| 18 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 19 father | nmod:poss |
| 19 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 God | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 forgive | punct |
| 21 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 forgive | punct |
| 22 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 wept | cc |
| 23 | Joseph | Joseph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 wept | nsubj |
| 24 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pray | conj |
| 25 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 27 spoke | mark |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 spoke | nsubj |
| 27 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 wept | advcl |
| 28 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 29 him | case |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 spoke | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pray | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pray | present | we | thee | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | forgive | infinitive | we not said here | the transgression of the servants of the God of thy father | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent transgression=Theme | ||||
| 3 | weep | past | Joseph | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | speak speech: other | past | transgression | unto Joseph | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | transgress | the servants of the God of thy father | nom transgression «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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
כֹּֽה־תֹאמְר֣וּ לְיוֹסֵ֗ף אָ֣נָּ֡א שָׂ֣א נָ֠א פֶּ֣שַׁע אַחֶ֤יךָ וְחַטָּאתָם֙ כִּי־רָעָ֣ה גְמָל֔וּךָ וְעַתָּה֙ שָׂ֣א נָ֔א לְפֶ֥שַׁע עַבְדֵ֖י אֱלֹהֵ֣י אָבִ֑יךָ וַיֵּ֥בְךְּ יוֹסֵ֖ף בְּדַבְּרָ֥ם אֵלָֽיו׃
Genesis 50:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- So shall ye say unto Joseph: Forgive, I pray thee now, the transgression of thy brethren, and their sin, for that they did unto thee evil.
- And now, we pray thee, forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of thy father.' And Joseph wept when they spoke unto him.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:GEN:1653 of Mova's parse database.
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