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title: Genesis 41:16 (JPS 1917) — And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying: 'It is not in me; God will give… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying: 'It is not in me; God will give Pharaoh an answer of peace.' Who acts: Joseph, dream, God. Genesis 41:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 41:16 · JPS 1917

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And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying: 'It is not in me; God will give Pharaoh an answer of peace.'

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**Who acts:** Joseph, dream, God · **What happens:** answer, say, not be, give · **To what, where:** Pharaoh, answer, peace · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Genesis 41:16 · 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 (Joseph, dream, God), 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:1315
# text = And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying: 'It is not in me; God will give Pharaoh an answer of peace.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Joseph	Joseph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Pharaoh	Pharaoh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
8	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
9	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	ccomp	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	parataxis	_	_
18	Pharaoh	Pharaoh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	iobj	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
24	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	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 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Joseph |  | Pharaoh |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent pharaoh=Eventuality |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Joseph *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **is** | present | dream |  |  |  |  | in me | tree rules |
| 4 | **give** | future | God | a answer of peace | Pharaoh |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent pharaoh=Recipient answer=Theme |
| 5 | **answer** |  |  | peace |  |  |  |  | nom answer «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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וַיַּ֨עַן יוֹסֵ֧ף אֶת־פַּרְעֹ֛ה לֵאמֹ֖ר בִּלְעָדָ֑י אֱלֹהִ֕ים יַעֲנֶ֖ה אֶת־שְׁל֥וֹם פַּרְעֹֽה׃

[Genesis 41:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.41.16/)

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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:1315` 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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