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title: Genesis 42:10 (JPS 1917) — And they said unto him: 'Nay, my lord, but to buy food are thy serva… · tree and pragmatics
description: And they said unto him: 'Nay, my lord, but to buy food are thy servants come. Who acts: brethren, servants. Genesis 42:10 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 42:10 · JPS 1917

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And they said unto him: 'Nay, my lord, but to buy food are thy servants come.

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**Who acts:** brethren, servants · **What happens:** say, buy, come · **To what, where:** food · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Genesis 42:10 · 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 (brethren, servants), 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:1371
# text = And they said unto him: 'Nay, my lord, but to buy food are thy servants come.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Nay	nay	INTJ	UH	_	20	discourse	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	vocative	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
16	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
18	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	ccomp	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: disagree
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed form=decl

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | brethren |  |  |  |  | unto Joseph | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **buy** | to-infinitive | thy servants *not said here* | food |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | present · passive | thy servants |  |  |  |  | my lord *vocative* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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וַיֹּאמְר֥וּ אֵלָ֖יו לֹ֣א אֲדֹנִ֑י וַעֲבָדֶ֥יךָ בָּ֖אוּ לִשְׁבָּר־אֹֽכֶל׃

[Genesis 42:10: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.42.10/)

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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:1371` 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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