--- title: Genesis 50:18 — And his brethren also went and fell down before his face; and they s… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: And his brethren also went and fell down before his face; and they said: 'Behold, we are thy bondmen.' Who acts: brethren, we. Genesis 50:18 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Onkelos, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.50.18/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Torah](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/) / [Genesis](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/) / [chapter 50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/50/) / 50:18 # Genesis 50:18 בְּרֵאשִׁית **Who acts:** brethren, we · **What happens:** go, fall down, say, be · **To what, where:** face, bondmen · **Speech:** someone speaks in this verse This is Genesis 50:18 from Mova's open Bible corpus, the Tanakh in three languages (The Torah). The page gives the verse in Hebrew as the Westminster Leningrad Codex has it, its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, built from MACULA Hebrew — and its pragmatics: who acts — brethren, we — and what happens in the verse to face, bondmen, read clause by clause by Mova's frames. Beside it stand the Aramaic of Targum Onkelos and the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, each English sentence with a tree of its own. It is one of the 50 chapters of Genesis on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between. וַיֵּלְכוּ֙ גַּם־אֶחָ֔יו וַֽיִּפְּל֖וּ לְפָנָ֑יו וַיֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ הִנֶּ֥נּֽוּ לְךָ֖ לַעֲבָדִֽים׃ [And his brethren also went and fell down before his face; and they said: 'Behold, we are thy bondmen.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1654/) ## The tree {#tree} Right to left, as the Hebrew is read; a prefix or suffix is a word of its own, and a line under the words joins those written as one. Under each word its part of speech and MACULA's English gloss. ```conllu rtl gloss # sent_id = wlc:GEN:1524 # text = וַיֵּלְכוּ֙ גַּם־אֶחָ֔יו וַֽיִּפְּל֖וּ לְפָנָ֑יו וַיֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ הִנֶּ֥נּֽוּ לְךָ֖ לַעֲבָדִֽים׃ # verse = GEN.50.18 1-2 וַיֵּלְכוּ֙ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 2 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_50:18!1|MId=o010500180011|Strong=2050b 2 יֵּלְכוּ֙ הלך VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=they.went|Ref=GEN_50:18!1|MId=o010500180012|Strong=1980|Frame=A0:010500180031;|Type=wayyiqtol 3 גַּם־ גַּם ADV _ _ 4 advmod _ Gloss=also|Ref=GEN_50:18!2|MId=o010500180021|Strong=1571|Type=affirmation|SpaceAfter=No 4-5 אֶחָ֔יו _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 4 אֶחָ֔י אָח NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ Gloss=brothers|Ref=GEN_50:18!3|MId=o010500180031|Strong=0251 5 ו הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ Gloss=his|Ref=GEN_50:18!3|MId=o010500180032|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 6-7 וַֽיִּפְּל֖וּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 6 וַֽ וְ CCONJ _ _ 7 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_50:18!4|MId=o010500180041|Strong=2050b 7 יִּפְּל֖וּ נָפַל VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3 2 conj _ Gloss=they.fell|Ref=GEN_50:18!4|MId=o010500180042|Strong=5307|Frame=A0:010500180031;|Type=wayyiqtol 8-10 לְפָנָ֑יו _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 8 לְ לְ ADP _ _ 9 case _ Gloss=before|Ref=GEN_50:18!5|MId=o010500180051|Strong=3807a 9 פָנָ֑י פָּנֶה NOUN _ Number=Plur 7 obl _ Gloss=|Ref=GEN_50:18!5|MId=o010500180052|Strong=6440 10 ו הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ Gloss=him|Ref=GEN_50:18!5|MId=o010500180053|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 11-12 וַיֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 11 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 12 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_50:18!6|MId=o010500180061|Strong=2050b 12 יֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ אָמַר VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3 2 conj _ Gloss=they.said|Ref=GEN_50:18!6|MId=o010500180062|Strong=0559|Frame=A0:010500180031;|Type=wayyiqtol 13-14 הִנֶּ֥נּֽוּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 13 הִנּ הִנֵּה INTJ _ _ 18 nsubj _ Gloss=here|Ref=GEN_50:18!7|MId=o010500180071|Strong=2009|Type=demonstrative 14 ֶ֥נּֽוּ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ Gloss=we|Ref=GEN_50:18!7|MId=o010500180072|Strong=5105a|Type=pronominal 15-16 לְךָ֖ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 15 ל לְ ADP _ _ 16 case _ Gloss=[belong].to|Ref=GEN_50:18!8|MId=o010500180081|Strong=3807a 16 ְךָ֖ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 obl _ Gloss=you|Ref=GEN_50:18!8|MId=o010500180082|Strong=3509b|Type=pronominal 17-18 לַעֲבָדִֽים _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 17 לַ לְ ADP _ _ 18 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=GEN_50:18!9|MId=o010500180091|Strong=3807a 18 עֲבָדִֽים עֶבֶד NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 12 ccomp _ Gloss=slaves|Ref=GEN_50:18!9|MId=o010500180092|Strong=5650 19 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 18 punct _ Ref=GEN_50:18!9 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - speech: a frame and its quote - negation: no - the frame alone: decl · narrate · none | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | יֵּלְכוּ *they went* | wayyiqtol · qal | אֶחָי *brothers* | | | | | יִּפְּלוּ *they fell* | wayyiqtol · qal | אֶחָי *brothers* | | | | | יֹּאמְרוּ *they said* | wayyiqtol · qal | אֶחָי *brothers* | | | | MACULA's semantic frames: for each verb the head word of each participant. A0 is the one who acts, A1 what the act is done to or is about, A2 a further participant; AA, with a causative verb, the one who makes it happen. ## Targum Onkelos {#onkelos} וַאֲזָלוּ אַף אֲחוֹהִי וּנְפָלוּ קֳדָמוֹהִי וַאֲמָרוּ הָא אֲנַחְנָא לָךְ לְעַבְדִין The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet. ## English, JPS 1917 {#english} Each sentence on its own page, with its tree and pragmatics. A sentence that runs on into the next verse is listed under the verse it begins in. 1. [And his brethren also went and fell down before his face; and they said: 'Behold, we are thy bondmen.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1654/) **Hebrew text:** Westminster Leningrad Codex, public domain. **Tree, glosses and frames:** MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets, available at [github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew](https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew/), [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); converted to Universal Dependencies by Mova (words in text order, a prefix its own word). **Speech act:** Mova's rules on the MACULA words (`macula prag`). **Targum:** Onkelos (Torat Emet), Jonathan and the Writings (Mikraot Gedolot), from Sefaria, public domain. **English:** JPS 1917, public domain; trees and speech acts by Mova's cycle, frames by Mova's reader (Elamur Cosmic License). Hebrew sentence `wlc:GEN:1524`. - ← previous: [Genesis 50:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.50.17/) - next →: [Genesis 50:19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.50.19/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/50/)