Genesis 50:20 · JPS 1917
And as for you, ye meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.
Who acts: ye, God, evil · What happens: mean, bring, pass, be, save · To what, where: evil, day, much people
This is Genesis 50:20 · 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 (ye, God, evil), 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 | _ | 7 meant | cc |
| 2 | as | as | ADP | _ | 4 you | case |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 2 as | fixed |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 meant | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 you | punct |
| 6 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 meant | nsubj |
| 7 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 meant | obj |
| 9 | against | against | ADP | _ | 10 me | case |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 meant | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 meant | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 meant | cc |
| 13 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 meant | nsubj |
| 14 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 meant | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 meant | obj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 good | case |
| 17 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 meant | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 bring | punct |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 bring | mark |
| 20 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 meant | advcl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 pass | mark |
| 22 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 bring | xcomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 day | punct |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 day | mark |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 day | nsubj |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 day | cop |
| 27 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 day | det |
| 28 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 pass | advcl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 save | punct |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 save | mark |
| 31 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 bring | advcl |
| 32 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 people | amod |
| 33 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 save | obj |
| 34 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 save | xcomp |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 meant | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- character
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- changed voice=character, polarity=pos
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | past | ye | evil | as you; against me | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent evil=Topic as you=Attribute | |||
| 2 | mean | past | God | evil | for good | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot it=Theme for good=Attribute | |||
| 3 | bring | to-infinitive | God not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | pass | to-infinitive | God not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is a | present | evil | this day | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | save | to-infinitive | God not said here | much people | alive property | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme |
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
וְאַתֶּ֕ם חֲשַׁבְתֶּ֥ם עָלַ֖י רָעָ֑ה אֱלֹהִים֙ חֲשָׁבָ֣הּ לְטֹבָ֔ה לְמַ֗עַן עֲשֹׂ֛ה כַּיּ֥וֹם הַזֶּ֖ה לְהַחֲיֹ֥ת עַם־רָֽב׃
Genesis 50:20: 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:1656 of Mova's parse database.
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