Genesis 12:12 · JPS 1917

And it will come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see thee, that they will say: This is his wife; and they will kill me, but thee they will keep alive.

Who acts: famine, Egyptians, This · What happens: come, pass, see, say, be, kill · To what, where: thee, wife, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Genesis 12:12 · 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 (famine, Egyptians, 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	_	4 come	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 come	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 pass	mark
6	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 come	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 see	punct
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 see	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Egyptians	det
10	Egyptians	Egyptian	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 see	nsubj
11	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 see	aux
12	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 come	advcl
13	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	12 see	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 say	punct
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 say	mark
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 say	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 say	aux
18	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 come	advcl
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 wife	punct
20	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 wife	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 wife	cop
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 wife	nmod:poss
23	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 say	ccomp
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 kill	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 kill	cc
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 kill	nsubj
27	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 kill	aux
28	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 come	conj
29	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 kill	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 keep	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 keep	cc
32	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	35 keep	obj
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 keep	nsubj
34	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 keep	aux
35	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 kill	conj
36	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 keep	xcomp
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: promise
voice: character
polarity: pos
teacher: changed voice=character

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	future	famine			tree rules
2	pass	to-infinitive	famine not said here			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	see	shall	the Egyptians	thee		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thou=Stimulus
4	say speech: assert	future	Egyptians = egyptian			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is a	present	This	Abram's wife		tree rules
6	kill	future	Egyptians = egyptian	me		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
7	keep	future	Egyptians = egyptian	thee	alive property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=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

וְהָיָ֗ה כִּֽי־יִרְא֤וּ אֹתָךְ֙ הַמִּצְרִ֔ים וְאָמְר֖וּ אִשְׁתּ֣וֹ זֹ֑את וְהָרְג֥וּ אֹתִ֖י וְאֹתָ֥ךְ יְחַיּֽוּ׃

Genesis 12:12: 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:325 of Mova's parse database.

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