--- title: Genesis 42:3 (JPS 1917) — And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy corn from Egypt. · tree and pragmatics description: And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy corn from Egypt. Who acts: ten brethren. Genesis 42:3 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.1363/) [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/) / [42:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.42.3/) / JPS 1 # Genesis 42:3 · JPS 1917 And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy corn from Egypt. **Who acts:** ten brethren · **What happens:** go down, buy · **To what, where:** corn, Egypt This is Genesis 42:3 · 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 (ten brethren), 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:1363 # text = And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy corn from Egypt. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 2 Joseph Joseph PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 brethren brethren NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 down down ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 buy buy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 advcl _ _ 10 corn corn NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 11 from from ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 Egypt Egypt PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | **go down** | past | Joseph's ten brethren | | | | | down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 2 | **buy** | to-infinitive | Joseph's ten brethren *not said here* | corn | | Egypt | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent corn=Theme from egypt=Source | 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} וַיֵּרְד֥וּ אֲחֵֽי־יוֹסֵ֖ף עֲשָׂרָ֑ה לִשְׁבֹּ֥ר בָּ֖ר מִמִּצְרָֽיִם׃ [Genesis 42:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.42.3/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:1363` 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.1362/) - next →: [Genesis 42:4 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1364/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 42:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.42.3/)