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title: Genesis 41:39 (JPS 1917) — And Pharaoh said unto Joseph: 'Forasmuch as God hath shown thee all… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Pharaoh said unto Joseph: 'Forasmuch as God hath shown thee all this, there is none so discreet and wise as thou. Who acts: Pharaoh, God. Genesis 41:39 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 41:39 · JPS 1917

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And Pharaoh said unto Joseph: 'Forasmuch as God hath shown thee all this, there is none so discreet and wise as thou.

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**Who acts:** Pharaoh, God · **What happens:** say, show · **To what, where:** this, thee · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Genesis 41:39 · 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, 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:1340
# text = And Pharaoh said unto Joseph: 'Forasmuch as God hath shown thee all this, there is none so discreet and wise as thou.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Pharaoh	Pharaoh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Joseph	Joseph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
8	Forasmuch	forasmuch	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	shown	show	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
13	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	iobj	_	_
14	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	18	expl	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
19	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	18	nsubj	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	discreet	discreet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	21	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed form=decl, act=assert, polarity=pos

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Pharaoh |  |  |  |  | unto Joseph | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **show** | present · perfect | God | this | thee |  |  | forasmuch *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient this=Topic |

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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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וַיֹּ֤אמֶר פַּרְעֹה֙ אֶל־יוֹסֵ֔ף אַחֲרֵ֨י הוֹדִ֧יעַ אֱלֹהִ֛ים אוֹתְךָ֖ אֶת־כָּל־זֹ֑את אֵין־נָב֥וֹן וְחָכָ֖ם כָּמֽוֹךָ׃

[Genesis 41:39: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.41.39/)

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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:1340` 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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