--- title: Genesis 42:2 (JPS 1917) — Get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live,… · tree and pragmatics description: Get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die.' Who acts: you, we. Genesis 42:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1362/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Torah](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/) / [Genesis](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/) / [chapter 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/42/) / [42:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.42.2/) / JPS 2 # Genesis 42:2 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 Get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die.' **Who acts:** you, we · **What happens:** get down, buy, live, not die · **To what, where:** you This is Genesis 42:2 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 (you, we), 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:1362 # text = Get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die.' 1 Get get VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ _ 3 down down ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 4 thither thither ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 buy buy VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 obl _ _ 10 from from ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 thence thence ADV RB _ 7 obl _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 13 that that SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 14 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 advcl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 20 die die VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ 22 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: character - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get down** | imperative | you *not said here* | you | | | | down, thither *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **buy** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | for us | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent for we=Asset from thence=Source | | 3 | **live** | may | we | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **not** **die** | infinitive | we *not said here* | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | 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} וַיֹּ֕אמֶר הִנֵּ֣ה שָׁמַ֔עְתִּי כִּ֥י יֶשׁ־שֶׁ֖בֶר בְּמִצְרָ֑יִם רְדוּ־שָׁ֙מָּה֙ וְשִׁבְרוּ־לָ֣נוּ מִשָּׁ֔ם וְנִחְיֶ֖ה וְלֹ֥א נָמֽוּת׃ [Genesis 42:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.42.2/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. [And he said: 'Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1361/) 2. **Get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die.'** **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:1362` 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 42:2 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1361/) - next →: [Genesis 42:3 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1363/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 42:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.42.2/)