Genesis 12:19 · JPS 1917

Why saidst thou: She is my sister? so that I took her to be my wife; now therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way.'

Who acts: thou, Pharaoh, I · What happens: say, be, take, behold, go · To what, where: sister, Pharaoh, wife, way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Genesis 12:19 · 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 (thou, Pharaoh, I), 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Rel	2 saidst	advmod
2	saidst	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	2 saidst	nsubj
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 sister	punct
5	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sister	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 sister	cop
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 sister	nmod:poss
8	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saidst	ccomp
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 saidst	punct
10	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	13 took	mark
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 so	fixed
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 took	nsubj
13	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 saidst	advcl
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 took	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	18 wife	mark
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 wife	cop
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 wife	nmod:poss
18	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 took	xcomp
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 behold	punct
20	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 behold	advmod
21	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	22 behold	advmod
22	behold	behold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 saidst	parataxis
23	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	24 wife	nmod:poss
24	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 behold	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 take	punct
26	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	22 behold	conj
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 take	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 go	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 go	cc
30	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	22 behold	conj
31	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	32 way	nmod:poss
32	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 go	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 saidst	punct
34	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 saidst	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	thou					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	Pharaoh	my sister				tree rules
3	take	past	I		Pharaoh			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination
4	is a	to-infinitive	I not said here	my wife				tree rules
5	behold	infinitive		thy wife		now	therefore property	vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wife=Stimulus
6	take	infinitive			Pharaoh			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination
7	go	infinitive		thy way				vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=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

לָמָ֤ה אָמַ֙רְתָּ֙ אֲחֹ֣תִי הִ֔וא וָאֶקַּ֥ח אֹתָ֛הּ לִ֖י לְאִשָּׁ֑ה וְעַתָּ֕ה הִנֵּ֥ה אִשְׁתְּךָ֖ קַ֥ח וָלֵֽךְ׃

Genesis 12:19: 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:332 of Mova's parse database.

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