--- title: Genesis 40:4 (JPS 1917) — And the captain of the guard charged Joseph to be with them, and he… · tree and pragmatics description: And the captain of the guard charged Joseph to be with them, and he ministered unto them; and they continued a season in ward. Who acts: captain, butler. 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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 (captain, butler), 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:1277 # text = And the captain of the guard charged Joseph to be with them, and he ministered unto them; and they continued a season in ward. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 captain captain NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 guard guard NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 charged charge VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 Joseph Joseph PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 10 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 12 cop _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 xcomp _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 ministered minister VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 17 unto unto ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obl _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 continued continue VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 season season NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl:unmarked _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 ward ward NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **charge** | past | the captain of the guard | Joseph | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location joseph=Theme | | 2 | **is** | to-infinitive | the captain of the guard *not said here* | | | | | with butler | tree rules | | 3 | **minister** | past | captain | | | | | unto butler | tree rules | | 4 | **continue** | past | butler | | | ward | season | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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} וַ֠יִּפְקֹד שַׂ֣ר הַטַּבָּחִ֧ים אֶת־יוֹסֵ֛ף אִתָּ֖ם וַיְשָׁ֣רֶת אֹתָ֑ם וַיִּהְי֥וּ יָמִ֖ים בְּמִשְׁמָֽר׃ [Genesis 40:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.40.4/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:1277` 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 40:3 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1276/) - next →: [Genesis 40:5 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1278/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 40:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.40.4/)