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title: Genesis 41:49 (JPS 1917) — And Joseph laid up corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until the… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Joseph laid up corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until they left off numbering; for it was without number. Who acts: Joseph, cities, corn. Genesis 41:49 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 41:49 · JPS 1917

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And Joseph laid up corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until they left off numbering; for it was without number.

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**Who acts:** Joseph, cities, corn · **What happens:** lay up, leave off, number, be · **To what, where:** corn

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This is Genesis 41:49 · 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, cities, corn), 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:1351
# text = And Joseph laid up corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until they left off numbering; for it was without number.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Joseph	Joseph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	very	very	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	much	much	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
19	off	off	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	numbering	number	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	xcomp	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
22	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	without	without	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	advcl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay up** | past | Joseph | corn |  |  |  | as the sand of the sea | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent corn=Result as sand=Attribute |
| 2 | **leave off** | past | cities *= city* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **number** | gerund | cities *= city* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | past | corn |  |  |  |  | without number | 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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וַיִּצְבֹּ֨ר יוֹסֵ֥ף בָּ֛ר כְּח֥וֹל הַיָּ֖ם הַרְבֵּ֣ה מְאֹ֑ד עַ֛ד כִּי־חָדַ֥ל לִסְפֹּ֖ר כִּי־אֵ֥ין מִסְפָּֽר׃

[Genesis 41:49: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.41.49/)

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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:1351` 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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