--- title: Genesis 47:20 — So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptian… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine was sore upon them; and the land became Pharaoh's. Who acts: Joseph, Egyptians, famine, land. 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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 — Joseph, Egyptians, famine, land — and what happens in the verse to land, field, man, 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. וַיִּ֨קֶן יוֹסֵ֜ף אֶת־כָּל־אַדְמַ֤ת מִצְרַ֙יִם֙ לְפַרְעֹ֔ה כִּֽי־מָכְר֤וּ מִצְרַ֙יִם֙ אִ֣ישׁ שָׂדֵ֔הוּ כִּֽי־חָזַ֥ק עֲלֵהֶ֖ם הָרָעָ֑ב וַתְּהִ֥י הָאָ֖רֶץ לְפַרְעֹֽה׃ [So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine was sore upon them; and the land became Pharaoh's.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1561/) ## 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:1440 # text = וַיִּ֨קֶן יוֹסֵ֜ף אֶת־כָּל־אַדְמַ֤ת מִצְרַ֙יִם֙ לְפַרְעֹ֔ה כִּֽי־מָכְר֤וּ מִצְרַ֙יִם֙ אִ֣ישׁ שָׂדֵ֔הוּ כִּֽי־חָזַ֥ק עֲלֵהֶ֖ם הָרָעָ֑ב וַתְּהִ֥י הָאָ֖רֶץ לְפַרְעֹֽה׃ # verse = GEN.47.20 1-2 וַיִּ֨קֶן _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 2 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_47:20!1|MId=o010470200011|Strong=2050b 2 יִּ֨קֶן קָנָה VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=he.bought|Ref=GEN_47:20!1|MId=o010470200012|Strong=7069|Frame=A0:010470200021;A1:010470200051;|Type=wayyiqtol 3 יוֹסֵ֜ף יוֹסֵף PROPN _ _ 2 nsubj _ Gloss=Joseph|Ref=GEN_47:20!2|MId=o010470200021|Strong=3130 4 אֶת־ אֵת ADP _ _ 5 case _ Gloss=(et)|Ref=GEN_47:20!3|MId=o010470200031|Strong=0853|Type=direct_object_marker|SpaceAfter=No 5 כָּל־ כֹּל NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 2 obj _ Gloss=all|Ref=GEN_47:20!4|MId=o010470200041|Strong=3605|SpaceAfter=No 6 אַדְמַ֤ת אֲדָמָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 5 compound:smixut _ Gloss=the.land|Ref=GEN_47:20!5|MId=o010470200051|Strong=0127 7 מִצְרַ֙יִם֙ מִצְרַיִם PROPN _ _ 6 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.Egypt|Ref=GEN_47:20!6|MId=o010470200061|Strong=4714 8-9 לְפַרְעֹ֔ה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 8 לְ לְ ADP _ _ 9 case _ Gloss=for|Ref=GEN_47:20!7|MId=o010470200071|Strong=3807a 9 פַרְעֹ֔ה פַּרְעֹה PROPN _ _ 2 obl _ Gloss=Pharaoh|Ref=GEN_47:20!7|MId=o010470200072|Strong=6547 10 כִּֽי־ כִּי SCONJ _ _ 11 mark _ Gloss=(dm)|Ref=GEN_47:20!8|MId=o010470200081|Strong=3588|SpaceAfter=No 11 מָכְר֤וּ מָכַר VERB _ Gender=Com|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3 2 advcl _ Gloss=they.sold|Ref=GEN_47:20!9|MId=o010470200091|Strong=4376|Frame=A0:010470200101;A1:010470200121;|Type=qatal 12 מִצְרַ֙יִם֙ מִצְרַיִם PROPN _ _ 11 nsubj _ Gloss=Egypt|Ref=GEN_47:20!10|MId=o010470200101|Strong=4714 13 אִ֣ישׁ אִישׁ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 11 obl _ Gloss=everyone|Ref=GEN_47:20!11|MId=o010470200111|Strong=0376 14-15 שָׂדֵ֔הוּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 14 שָׂד שָׂדֶה NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 11 obj _ Gloss=field|Ref=GEN_47:20!12|MId=o010470200121|Strong=7704 15 ֵ֔הוּ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ Gloss=his|Ref=GEN_47:20!12|MId=o010470200122|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 16 כִּֽי־ כִּי SCONJ _ _ 17 mark _ Gloss=(dm)|Ref=GEN_47:20!13|MId=o010470200131|Strong=3588|SpaceAfter=No 17 חָזַ֥ק חָזַק VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 2 advcl _ Gloss=it.was.severe|Ref=GEN_47:20!14|MId=o010470200141|Strong=2388|Frame=A0:010470200162;|Type=qatal 18-19 עֲלֵהֶ֖ם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 18 עֲל עַל ADP _ _ 19 case _ Gloss=on|Ref=GEN_47:20!15|MId=o010470200151|Strong=5921 19 ֵהֶ֖ם הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obl _ Gloss=them|Ref=GEN_47:20!15|MId=o010470200152|Strong=3963a|Type=pronominal 20-21 הָרָעָ֑ב _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 20 הָ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 21 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=GEN_47:20!16|MId=o010470200161|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 21 רָעָ֑ב רָעָב NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ Gloss=famine|Ref=GEN_47:20!16|MId=o010470200162|Strong=7458 22-23 וַתְּהִ֥י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 22 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 23 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_47:20!17|MId=o010470200171|Strong=2050b 23 תְּהִ֥י הָיָה VERB _ Gender=Fem|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 2 conj _ Gloss=it.belonged|Ref=GEN_47:20!17|MId=o010470200172|Strong=1961|Frame=A0:010470200182;|Type=wayyiqtol 24-25 הָאָ֖רֶץ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 24 הָ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 25 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=GEN_47:20!18|MId=o010470200181|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 25 אָ֖רֶץ אֶרֶץ NOUN _ Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ Gloss=land|Ref=GEN_47:20!18|MId=o010470200182|Strong=0776 26-27 לְפַרְעֹֽה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 26 לְ לְ ADP _ _ 27 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=GEN_47:20!19|MId=o010470200191|Strong=3807a 27 פַרְעֹֽה פַּרְעֹה PROPN _ _ 23 obl _ Gloss=Pharaoh|Ref=GEN_47:20!19|MId=o010470200192|Strong=6547 28 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 27 punct _ Ref=GEN_47:20!19 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - speech: narration - negation: no | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | יִּקֶן *he bought* | wayyiqtol · qal | יוֹסֵף *Joseph* | אַדְמַת *the land* | | | | מָכְרוּ *they sold* | qatal · qal | מִצְרַיִם *Egypt* | שָׂד *field* | | | | חָזַק *it was severe* | qatal · qal | רָעָב *famine* | | | | | תְּהִי *it belonged* | wayyiqtol · qal | אָרֶץ *land* | | | | 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} וּקְנָא יוֹסֵף יָת כָּל אַרְעָא דְמִצְרַיִם לְפַרְעֹה אֲרֵי זַבִּינוּ מִצְרַיִם גְּבַר חַקְלֵהּ אֲרֵי תְקֵיף עֲלֵיהוֹן כַּפְנָא וַהֲוַת אַרְעָא לְפַרְעֹה 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. [So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine was sore upon them; and the land became Pharaoh's.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1561/) **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). 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