--- title: Genesis 43:28 — And they said: 'Thy servant our father is well, he is yet alive.' An… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: And they said: 'Thy servant our father is well, he is yet alive.' And they bowed the head, and made obeisance. Who acts: sacks, servant, Joseph. Genesis 43:28 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.43.28/) [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 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/43/) / 43:28 # Genesis 43:28 בְּרֵאשִׁית **Who acts:** sacks, servant, Joseph · **What happens:** say, be, bow, make · **To what, where:** head, obeisance · **Speech:** someone speaks in this verse This is Genesis 43:28 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 — sacks, servant, Joseph — and what happens in the verse to head, obeisance, 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. וַיֹּאמְר֗וּ שָׁל֛וֹם לְעַבְדְּךָ֥ לְאָבִ֖ינוּ עוֹדֶ֣נּוּ חָ֑י וַֽיִּקְּד֖וּ וַיִּֽשְׁתַּחֲוּֽוּ׃ [And they said: 'Thy servant our father is well, he is yet alive.' And they bowed the head, and made obeisance.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1430/) ## 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:1318 # text = וַיֹּאמְר֗וּ שָׁל֛וֹם לְעַבְדְּךָ֥ לְאָבִ֖ינוּ עוֹדֶ֣נּוּ חָ֑י וַֽיִּקְּד֖וּ וַיִּֽשְׁתַּחֲוּֽוּ׃ # verse = GEN.43.28 1-2 וַיֹּאמְר֗וּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 2 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_43:28!1|MId=o010430280011|Strong=2050b 2 יֹּאמְר֗וּ אָמַר VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=they.said|Ref=GEN_43:28!1|MId=o010430280012|Strong=0559|Frame=A0:010430240042;|Type=wayyiqtol 3 שָׁל֛וֹם שָׁלוֹם NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ Gloss=health|Ref=GEN_43:28!2|MId=o010430280021|Strong=7965 4-6 לְעַבְדְּךָ֥ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 4 לְ לְ ADP _ _ 5 case _ Gloss=[belongs].to|Ref=GEN_43:28!3|MId=o010430280031|Strong=3807a 5 עַבְדּ עֶבֶד NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 2 ccomp _ Gloss=servant|Ref=GEN_43:28!3|MId=o010430280032|Strong=5650 6 ְךָ֥ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ Gloss=your|Ref=GEN_43:28!3|MId=o010430280033|Strong=3509b|Type=pronominal 7-9 לְאָבִ֖ינוּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 7 לְ לְ ADP _ _ 8 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=GEN_43:28!4|MId=o010430280041|Strong=3807a 8 אָבִ֖י אָב NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 5 nmod _ Gloss=father|Ref=GEN_43:28!4|MId=o010430280042|Strong=0001 9 נוּ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ Gloss=our|Ref=GEN_43:28!4|MId=o010430280043|Strong=5105a|Type=pronominal 10-11 עוֹדֶ֣נּוּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 10 עוֹד עוֹד ADV _ _ 12 advmod _ Gloss=still|Ref=GEN_43:28!5|MId=o010430280051|Strong=5750 11 ֶ֣נּוּ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ Gloss=he|Ref=GEN_43:28!5|MId=o010430280052|Strong=5105b|Type=pronominal 12 חָ֑י חַי ADJ _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 5 parataxis _ Gloss=[is].alive|Ref=GEN_43:28!6|MId=o010430280061|Strong=2416a|Type=adjective 13-14 וַֽיִּקְּד֖וּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 13 וַֽ וְ CCONJ _ _ 14 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_43:28!7|MId=o010430280071|Strong=2050b 14 יִּקְּד֖וּ קָדַד VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3 2 conj _ Gloss=they.bowed.low|Ref=GEN_43:28!7|MId=o010430280072|Strong=6915|Frame=A0:010430240042;|Type=wayyiqtol 15-16 וַיִּֽשְׁתַּחֲוּֽוּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 15 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 16 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_43:28!9|MId=o010430280091|Strong=2050b 16 יִּֽשְׁתַּחֲוּֽוּ חוה VERB _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=3 14 conj _ Gloss=they.bowed.down|Ref=GEN_43:28!9|MId=o010430280092|Strong=7812a|Frame=A0:010430240042;|Type=wayyiqtol 17 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 16 punct _ Ref=GEN_43:28!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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | יֹּאמְרוּ *they said* | wayyiqtol · qal | | | | | | יִּקְּדוּ *they bowed low* | wayyiqtol · qal | | | | | | יִּֽשְׁתַּחֲוּֽוּ *they bowed down* | wayyiqtol | | | | | 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} וַאֲמָרוּ שְׁלַם לְעַבְדָךְ לְאָבוּנָא עַד כְּעַן קַיָּם וּכְרָעוּ וּסְגִידוּ 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 they said: 'Thy servant our father is well, he is yet alive.' And they bowed the head, and made obeisance.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1430/) **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:1318`. - ← previous: [Genesis 43:27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.43.27/) - next →: [Genesis 43:29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.43.29/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/43/)