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title: Genesis 41:51 (JPS 1917) — And Joseph called the name of the first-born Manasseh: 'for God hath… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Joseph called the name of the first-born Manasseh: 'for God hath made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house.' Who acts: Joseph, God, me, my. Genesis 41:51 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 41:51 · JPS 1917

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And Joseph called the name of the first-born Manasseh: 'for God hath made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house.'

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**Who acts:** Joseph, God, me, my · **What happens:** call, bear, make, forget, name, toil · **To what, where:** name, me, toil, born Manasseh · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Genesis 41:51 · 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, God, me, my), 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:1353
# text = And Joseph called the name of the first-born Manasseh: 'for God hath made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Joseph	Joseph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
8	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	10	advmod	_	_
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	_
10	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
11	Manasseh	Manasseh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
13	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
14	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	ccomp	_	_
18	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	22	det:predet	_	_
21	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	toil	toil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
25	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	29	det:predet	_	_
26	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	's	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	_
29	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
31	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	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 | **call** *speech: assert* | past | Joseph | the name of the born Manasseh |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bear** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **make** | present · perfect | God | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **forget** | infinitive | me *not said here* | my toil and my father's house |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **name** |  |  | the born Manasseh |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **toil** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom toil «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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וַיִּקְרָ֥א יוֹסֵ֛ף אֶת־שֵׁ֥ם הַבְּכ֖וֹר מְנַשֶּׁ֑ה כִּֽי־נַשַּׁ֤נִי אֱלֹהִים֙ אֶת־כָּל־עֲמָלִ֔י וְאֵ֖ת כָּל־בֵּ֥ית אָבִֽי׃

[Genesis 41:51: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.41.51/)

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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:1353` 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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