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title: Genesis 41:4 (JPS 1917) — And the ill-favoured and lean-fleshed kine did eat up the seven well… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the ill-favoured and lean-fleshed kine did eat up the seven well-favoured and fat kine. Who acts: favoured kine. Genesis 41:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 41:4 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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And the ill-favoured and lean-fleshed kine did eat up the seven well-favoured and fat kine.

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**Who acts:** favoured kine · **What happens:** favour, flesh, eat up · **To what, where:** seven favoured kine

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This is Genesis 41:4 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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 (favoured kine), 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:1300
# text = And the ill-favoured and lean-fleshed kine did eat up the seven well-favoured and fat kine.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
3	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	_
5	favoured	favour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	lean	lean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	_
9	fleshed	flesh	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
10	kine	kine	NOUN	NN	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
11	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
15	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
16	well	well	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	_
18	favoured	favour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	amod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
21	kine	kine	NOUN	NN	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **favour** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **flesh** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **eat up** | past · do-support | the favoured kine | the seven favoured kine |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kine=Patient |
| 4 | **favour** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |

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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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וַתֹּאכַ֣לְנָה הַפָּר֗וֹת רָע֤וֹת הַמַּרְאֶה֙ וְדַקֹּ֣ת הַבָּשָׂ֔ר אֵ֚ת שֶׁ֣בַע הַפָּר֔וֹת יְפֹ֥ת הַמַּרְאֶ֖ה וְהַבְּרִיאֹ֑ת וַיִּיקַ֖ץ פַּרְעֹֽה׃

[Genesis 41:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.41.4/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **And the ill-favoured and lean-fleshed kine did eat up the seven well-favoured and fat kine.**
2. [So Pharaoh awoke.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1301/)

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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:1300` 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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