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title: Genesis 37:3 (JPS 1917) — Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age; and he made him a coat of many colours. Who acts: Israel, Joseph. Genesis 37:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 37:3 · JPS 1917

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Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age; and he made him a coat of many colours.

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**Who acts:** Israel, Joseph · **What happens:** love, be, make · **To what, where:** Joseph, son, coat, Israel

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This is Genesis 37:3 · JPS 1917 in the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, from Mova's open Bible corpus. The page gives the sentence's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, parsed by Mova and checked by a teacher model — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Israel, Joseph), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it. The original of the verse links back to its own tree and to the Targum.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = jps:GEN:1178
# text = Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age; and he made him a coat of many colours.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Joseph	Joseph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	_
6	than	than	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	9	det:predet	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	advcl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	iobj	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	xcomp	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **love** | past | Israel | Joseph |  |  | now | than Joseph's children | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer joseph=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Joseph | the son |  |  | of Joseph's old age |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | past | Joseph | a coat of many colours | Israel |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Product |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The Hebrew of this verse {#hebrew}

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וְיִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל אָהַ֤ב אֶת־יוֹסֵף֙ מִכָּל־בָּנָ֔יו כִּֽי־בֶן־זְקֻנִ֥ים ה֖וּא ל֑וֹ וְעָ֥שָׂה ל֖וֹ כְּתֹ֥נֶת פַּסִּֽים׃

[Genesis 37:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.37.3/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:1178` of Mova's parse database.

**The tree and the speech act** come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

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