--- title: Genesis 41:42 (JPS 1917) — And Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand, and put it upon… · tree and pragmatics description: And Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck. Who acts: Pharaoh. 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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), 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:1343 # text = And Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 Pharaoh Pharaoh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 off off ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 5 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 6 signet signet NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 ring ring NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 8 from from ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 upon upon ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 Joseph Joseph PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nmod:poss _ _ 17 's 's PART POS _ 16 case _ _ 18 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 arrayed array VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 22 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 vestures vesture NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 linen linen NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 chain chain NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 34 about about ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **take off** | past | Pharaoh | Pharaoh's signet ring | | Pharaoh's hand | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme from hand=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **put** | past | Pharaoh *not said here* | ring | | Joseph's hand | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme upon hand=Destination | | 3 | **array** | past | Pharaoh *not said here* | Pharaoh | | vestures of fine linen | | | tree rules | | 4 | **put** | past | Pharaoh *not said here* | a gold chain | | | | about Pharaoh's neck | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent chain=Theme about neck=Destination | 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} וַיָּ֨סַר פַּרְעֹ֤ה אֶת־טַבַּעְתּוֹ֙ מֵעַ֣ל יָד֔וֹ וַיִּתֵּ֥ן אֹתָ֖הּ עַל־יַ֣ד יוֹסֵ֑ף וַיַּלְבֵּ֤שׁ אֹתוֹ֙ בִּגְדֵי־שֵׁ֔שׁ וַיָּ֛שֶׂם רְבִ֥ד הַזָּהָ֖ב עַל־צַוָּארֽוֹ׃ [Genesis 41:42: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.41.42/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:1343` 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 41:41 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1342/) - next →: [Genesis 41:43 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1344/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 41:42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.41.42/)