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title: Genesis 41:57 (JPS 1917) — And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph to buy corn; because the… · tree and pragmatics
description: And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph to buy corn; because the famine was sore in all the earth. Who acts: countries, famine. Genesis 41:57 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 41:57 · JPS 1917

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And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph to buy corn; because the famine was sore in all the earth.

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**Who acts:** countries, famine · **What happens:** come, buy, be · **To what, where:** Joseph, Egypt, corn, earth

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This is Genesis 41:57 · 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 (countries, famine), 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:1359
# text = And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph to buy corn; because the famine was sore in all the earth.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Joseph	Joseph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
11	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
13	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	famine	famine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	sore	sore	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	21	det:predet	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **come** | past | all countries |  | Joseph | Egypt |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme into egypt=Initial\_Location to joseph=Destination |
| 2 | **buy** | to-infinitive | all countries *not said here* | corn |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corn=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | the famine |  |  | all earth |  | sore *property* | 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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וְכָל־הָאָ֙רֶץ֙ בָּ֣אוּ מִצְרַ֔יְמָה לִשְׁבֹּ֖ר אֶל־יוֹסֵ֑ף כִּֽי־חָזַ֥ק הָרָעָ֖ב בְּכָל־הָאָֽרֶץ׃

[Genesis 41:57: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.41.57/)

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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:1359` 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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