--- title: Genesis 40:19 (JPS 1917) — within yet three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee,… · tree and pragmatics description: within yet three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee, and shall hang thee on a tree; and the birds shall eat thy flesh from off thee.' Who acts: Pharaoh, birds. Genesis 40:19 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.1292/) [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 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/40/) / [40:19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.40.19/) / JPS 1 # Genesis 40:19 · JPS 1917 within yet three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee, and shall hang thee on a tree; and the birds shall eat thy flesh from off thee.' **Who acts:** Pharaoh, birds · **What happens:** lift up, hang, eat · **To what, where:** head, thee, tree, flesh This is Genesis 40:19 · 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 (Pharaoh, birds), 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:1292 # text = within yet three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee, and shall hang thee on a tree; and the birds shall eat thy flesh from off thee.' 1 within within ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 yet yet ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 4 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 5 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 6 Pharaoh Pharaoh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 lift lift VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 up up ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ _ 9 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 from from ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 off off ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 7 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 hang hang VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 18 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 17 obj _ _ 19 on on ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 26 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 28 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 flesh flesh NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 from from ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 off off ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 27 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ 34 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 7 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 | **lift up** | shall | Pharaoh | thy head | | thee | day | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme from thou=Destination | | 2 | **hang** | shall | Pharaoh *not said here* | thee | | a tree | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent thou=Theme on tree=Destination | | 3 | **eat** | shall | the birds | thy flesh | | thee | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flesh=Patient | 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} בְּע֣וֹד ׀ שְׁלֹ֣שֶׁת יָמִ֗ים יִשָּׂ֨א פַרְעֹ֤ה אֶת־רֹֽאשְׁךָ֙ מֵֽעָלֶ֔יךָ וְתָלָ֥ה אוֹתְךָ֖ עַל־עֵ֑ץ וְאָכַ֥ל הָע֛וֹף אֶת־בְּשָׂרְךָ֖ מֵעָלֶֽיךָ׃ [Genesis 40:19: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.40.19/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:1292` 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 40:18 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1291/) - next →: [Genesis 40:20 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1293/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 40:19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.40.19/)