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title: Genesis 42:32 — We are twelve brethren, sons of our father; one is not, and the youn… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics
description: We are twelve brethren, sons of our father; one is not, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan. Who acts: We, youngest. Genesis 42:32 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Onkelos, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 42:32 בְּרֵאשִׁית

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**Who acts:** We, youngest · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** twelve brethren, day

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This is Genesis 42:32 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 — We, youngest — and what happens in the verse to twelve brethren, day, 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.

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שְׁנֵים־עָשָׂ֥ר אֲנַ֛חְנוּ אַחִ֖ים בְּנֵ֣י אָבִ֑ינוּ הָאֶחָ֣ד אֵינֶ֔נּוּ וְהַקָּטֹ֥ן הַיּ֛וֹם אֶת־אָבִ֖ינוּ בְּאֶ֥רֶץ כְּנָֽעַן׃

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[We are twelve brethren, sons of our father; one is not, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1393/)

## The tree {#tree}

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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:1284
# text = שְׁנֵים־עָשָׂ֥ר אֲנַ֛חְנוּ אַחִ֖ים בְּנֵ֣י אָבִ֑ינוּ הָאֶחָ֣ד אֵינֶ֔נּוּ וְהַקָּטֹ֥ן הַיּ֛וֹם אֶת־אָבִ֖ינוּ בְּאֶ֥רֶץ כְּנָֽעַן׃
# verse = GEN.42.32
1	שְׁנֵים־	שְׁנַיִם	NUM	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Dual	4	nummod	_	Gloss=[are].two.plus|Ref=GEN_42:32!1|MId=o010420320011|Strong=8147|Type=cardinal_number|SpaceAfter=No
2	עָשָׂ֥ר	עָשָׂר	NUM	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	1	flat	_	Gloss=ten|Ref=GEN_42:32!2|MId=o010420320021|Strong=6240|Type=cardinal_number
3	אֲנַ֛חְנוּ	אֲנַחְנוּ	PRON	_	Gender=Com|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	Gloss=we|Ref=GEN_42:32!3|MId=o010420320031|Strong=0587|Type=personal
4	אַחִ֖ים	אָח	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur	0	root	_	Gloss=brothers|Ref=GEN_42:32!4|MId=o010420320041|Strong=0251
5	בְּנֵ֣י	בֵּן	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur	4	appos	_	Gloss=sons|Ref=GEN_42:32!5|MId=o010420320051|Strong=1121
6-7	אָבִ֑ינוּ	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
6	אָבִ֑י	אָב	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	5	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=our.father|Ref=GEN_42:32!6|MId=o010420320061|Strong=0001
7	נוּ	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Com|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	Gloss=our|Ref=GEN_42:32!6|MId=o010420320062|Strong=5105a|Type=pronominal
8-9	הָאֶחָ֣ד	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
8	הָ	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	9	det	_	Gloss=the|Ref=GEN_42:32!7|MId=o010420320071|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
9	אֶחָ֣ד	אֶחָד	NUM	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	10	dislocated	_	Gloss=one|Ref=GEN_42:32!7|MId=o010420320072|Strong=0259|Type=cardinal_number
10-11	אֵינֶ֔נּוּ	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
10	אֵינ	אַיִן	ADV	_	_	4	parataxis	_	Gloss=he.[is]|Ref=GEN_42:32!8|MId=o010420320081|Strong=0369|Type=negative
11	ֶ֔נּוּ	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	Gloss=not|Ref=GEN_42:32!8|MId=o010420320082|Strong=5105b|Type=pronominal
12-14	וְהַקָּטֹ֥ן	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
12	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	18	cc	_	Gloss=the|Ref=GEN_42:32!9|MId=o010420320091|Strong=2050b
13	הַ	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	14	det	_	Gloss=young|Ref=GEN_42:32!9|MId=o010420320092|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
14	קָּטֹ֥ן	קָטֹן	ADJ	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	Gloss=[brother]|Ref=GEN_42:32!9|MId=o010420320093|Strong=6996a|Type=adjective
15-16	הַיּ֛וֹם	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
15	הַ	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	16	det	_	Gloss=this|Ref=GEN_42:32!10|MId=o010420320101|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
16	יּ֛וֹם	יוֹם	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	18	obl	_	Gloss=day|Ref=GEN_42:32!10|MId=o010420320102|Strong=3117
17	אֶת־	אֵת	ADP	_	_	18	case	_	Gloss=[is].with|Ref=GEN_42:32!11|MId=o010420320111|Strong=0854|SpaceAfter=No
18-19	אָבִ֖ינוּ	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
18	אָבִ֖י	אָב	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	4	conj	_	Gloss=father|Ref=GEN_42:32!12|MId=o010420320121|Strong=0001
19	נוּ	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Com|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	Gloss=our|Ref=GEN_42:32!12|MId=o010420320122|Strong=5105a|Type=pronominal
20-21	בְּאֶ֥רֶץ	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
20	בְּ	בְּ	ADP	_	_	21	case	_	Gloss=in|Ref=GEN_42:32!13|MId=o010420320131|Strong=0871a
21	אֶ֥רֶץ	אֶרֶץ	NOUN	_	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	Gloss=the.land|Ref=GEN_42:32!13|MId=o010420320132|Strong=0776
22	כְּנָֽעַן	כְּנַעַן	PROPN	_	_	21	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=of.Canaan|Ref=GEN_42:32!14|MId=o010420320141|Strong=3667|SpaceAfter=No
23	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	_	22	punct	_	Ref=GEN_42:32!14
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- speech: inside a quote begun earlier
- negation: yes

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MACULA marks no verb frame in this verse.

## Targum Onkelos {#onkelos}

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תְּרֵין עֲסַר אֲנַחְנָא אַחִין בְּנֵי אָבוּנָא חַד לֵיתוֹהִי וּזְעֵירָא יוֹמָא דֵּין עִם אָבוּנָא בְּאַרְעָא דִּכְנָעַן

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The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet.

## English, JPS 1917 {#english}

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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.

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1. [We are twelve brethren, sons of our father; one is not, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1393/)

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**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:1284`.

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