--- title: Genesis 39:11 (JPS 1917) — And it came to pass on a certain day, when he went into the house to… · tree and pragmatics description: And it came to pass on a certain day, when he went into the house to do his work, and there was none of the men of the house there within, Who acts: wickedness, Joseph. Genesis 39:11 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree 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/jps/GEN.1261/) [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 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/39/) / [39:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.39.11/) / JPS 1 # Genesis 39:11 · JPS 1917 And it came to pass on a certain day, when he went into the house to do his work, and there was none of the men of the house there within, **Who acts:** wickedness, Joseph · **What happens:** come, pass, go, do, work · **To what, where:** house, work This is Genesis 39:11 · 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 (wickedness, 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:1261 # text = And it came to pass on a certain day, when he went into the house to do his work, and there was none of the men of the house there within, 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 pass pass VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 certain certain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 when when SCONJ WRB _ 13 mark _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 14 into into ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 advcl _ _ 19 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 24 expl _ _ 24 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 25 none none PRON NN PronType=Neg 24 nsubj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 32 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 33 advmod _ _ 33 within within ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | wickedness | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **pass** | to-infinitive | wickedness *not said here* | | | | day | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **go** | past | Joseph | | | the house | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into house=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **do** | to-infinitive | Joseph *not said here* | Joseph's work | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality | | 5 | **work** | | Joseph | | | | | | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent | 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} וַיְהִי֙ כְּהַיּ֣וֹם הַזֶּ֔ה וַיָּבֹ֥א הַבַּ֖יְתָה לַעֲשׂ֣וֹת מְלַאכְתּ֑וֹ וְאֵ֨ין אִ֜ישׁ מֵאַנְשֵׁ֥י הַבַּ֛יִת שָׁ֖ם בַּבָּֽיִת׃ [Genesis 39:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.39.11/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:1261` 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. - ← previous: [Genesis 39:10 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1260/) - next →: [Genesis 39:12 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1262/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 39:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.39.11/)