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title: Genesis 40:16 (JPS 1917) — When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said u… · tree and pragmatics
description: When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said unto Joseph: 'I also saw in my dream, and, behold, three baskets of white bread were on my head; Who acts: chief baker, interpretation, baker, I. Genesis 40:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 40:16 · JPS 1917

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When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said unto Joseph: 'I also saw in my dream, and, behold, three baskets of white bread were on my head;

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**Who acts:** chief baker, interpretation, baker, I, three baskets, my · **What happens:** see, be, say, dream · **To what, where:** dream, head · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Genesis 40:16 · 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 (chief baker, interpretation, baker, I), 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:1289
# text = When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said unto Joseph: 'I also saw in my dream, and, behold, three baskets of white bread were on my head;
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	chief	chief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	baker	baker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	interpretation	interpretation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	ccomp	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Joseph	Joseph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
17	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	also	also	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	37	discourse	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
29	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	baskets	basket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nsubj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
34	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
35	on	on	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	ccomp	_	_
38	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | the chief baker |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | past | the interpretation |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | baker |  |  |  |  | unto Joseph | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **see** | past | I |  |  | my dream |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **is** | past | three baskets of white bread |  |  | my head |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **dream** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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וַיַּ֥רְא שַׂר־הָאֹפִ֖ים כִּ֣י ט֣וֹב פָּתָ֑ר וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ אֶל־יוֹסֵ֔ף אַף־אֲנִי֙ בַּחֲלוֹמִ֔י וְהִנֵּ֗ה שְׁלֹשָׁ֛ה סַלֵּ֥י חֹרִ֖י עַל־רֹאשִֽׁי׃

[Genesis 40:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.40.16/)

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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:1289` 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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