--- title: Genesis 50:16 — And they sent a message unto Joseph, saying: 'Thy father did command… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: And they sent a message unto Joseph, saying: 'Thy father did command before he died, saying: Who acts: brethren, father. Genesis 50:16 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.50.16/) [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/) / 50:16 # Genesis 50:16 בְּרֵאשִׁית **Who acts:** brethren, father · **What happens:** send, say, command, die · **To what, where:** message · **Speech:** someone speaks in this verse This is Genesis 50:16 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, father — and what happens in the verse to message, 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. וַיְצַוּ֕וּ אֶל־יוֹסֵ֖ף לֵאמֹ֑ר אָבִ֣יךָ צִוָּ֔ה לִפְנֵ֥י מוֹת֖וֹ לֵאמֹֽר׃ [And they sent a message unto Joseph, saying: 'Thy father did command before he died, saying:](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1651/) ## 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:1522 # text = וַיְצַוּ֕וּ אֶל־יוֹסֵ֖ף לֵאמֹ֑ר אָבִ֣יךָ צִוָּ֔ה לִפְנֵ֥י מוֹת֖וֹ לֵאמֹֽר׃ # verse = GEN.50.16 1-2 וַיְצַוּ֕וּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 2 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_50:16!1|MId=o010500160011|Strong=2050b 2 יְצַוּ֕וּ צָוָה VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=PIEL|Number=Plur|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=they.commanded|Ref=GEN_50:16!1|MId=o010500160012|Strong=6680|Frame=A0:010500150021;|Type=wayyiqtol 3 אֶל־ אֶל ADP _ _ 4 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=GEN_50:16!2|MId=o010500160021|Strong=0413|SpaceAfter=No 4 יוֹסֵ֖ף יוֹסֵף PROPN _ _ 2 obl _ Gloss=Joseph|Ref=GEN_50:16!3|MId=o010500160031|Strong=3130 5-6 לֵאמֹ֑ר _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 5 לֵ לְ ADP _ ExtPos=SCONJ 9 mark _ Gloss=(cmp)|Ref=GEN_50:16!4|MId=o010500160041|Strong=3807a 6 אמֹ֑ר אָמַר VERB _ HebBinyan=QAL 5 fixed _ Gloss=|Ref=GEN_50:16!4|MId=o010500160042|Strong=0559|Frame=A0:010500150021;|Type=infinitive_construct 7-8 אָבִ֣יךָ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 7 אָבִ֣י אָב NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ Gloss=father|Ref=GEN_50:16!5|MId=o010500160051|Strong=0001 8 ךָ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ Gloss=your|Ref=GEN_50:16!5|MId=o010500160052|Strong=3509b|Type=pronominal 9 צִוָּ֔ה צָוָה VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=PIEL|Number=Sing|Person=3 2 ccomp _ Gloss=he.commanded|Ref=GEN_50:16!6|MId=o010500160061|Strong=6680|Frame=A0:010500160051;|Type=qatal 10-11 לִפְנֵ֥י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 10 לִ לְ ADP _ _ 11 case _ Gloss=before|Ref=GEN_50:16!7|MId=o010500160071|Strong=3807a 11 פְנֵ֥י פָּנֶה NOUN _ Number=Plur 9 obl _ Gloss=|Ref=GEN_50:16!7|MId=o010500160072|Strong=6440 12-13 מוֹת֖וֹ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 12 מוֹת מָוֶת NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 11 compound:smixut _ Gloss=death|Ref=GEN_50:16!8|MId=o010500160081|Strong=4194 13 ֖וֹ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ Gloss=his|Ref=GEN_50:16!8|MId=o010500160082|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 14-15 לֵאמֹֽר _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 14 לֵ לְ ADP _ ExtPos=SCONJ 9 ccomp _ Gloss=(cmp)|Ref=GEN_50:16!9|MId=o010500160091|Strong=3807a 15 אמֹֽר אָמַר VERB _ HebBinyan=QAL 14 fixed _ Gloss=|Ref=GEN_50:16!9|MId=o010500160092|Strong=0559|Frame=A0:010500160051;|Type=infinitive_construct 16 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 14 punct _ Ref=GEN_50:16!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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | יְצַוּוּ *they commanded* | wayyiqtol · piel | | | | | | אמֹר | infinitive construct · qal | | | | | | צִוָּה *he commanded* | qatal · piel | אָבִי *father* | | | | | אמֹֽר | infinitive construct · qal | אָבִי *father* | | | | 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} וּפַקִידוּ לְוַת יוֹסֵף לְמֵימָר אָבוּךְ פַּקֵּד קֳדָם מוֹתֵהּ לְמֵימָר 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 sent a message unto Joseph, saying: 'Thy father did command before he died, saying:](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1651/) **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:1522`. - ← previous: [Genesis 50:15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.50.15/) - next →: [Genesis 50:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.50.17/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/50/)