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title: Genesis 42:14 (JPS 1917) — And Joseph said unto them: 'That is it that I spoke unto you, saying… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Joseph said unto them: 'That is it that I spoke unto you, saying: Ye are spies. Who acts: Joseph, That, I, Ye. Genesis 42:14 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 42:14 · JPS 1917

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And Joseph said unto them: 'That is it that I spoke unto you, saying: Ye are spies.

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**Who acts:** Joseph, That, I, Ye · **What happens:** say, be, speak · **To what, where:** land, spies · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Genesis 42:14 · 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, That, I, Ye), 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:1375
# text = And Joseph said unto them: 'That is it that I spoke unto you, saying: Ye are spies.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Joseph	Joseph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
8	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	ccomp	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
19	Ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	21	nsubj	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	spies	spy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	ccomp	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: disagree
- 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 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Joseph |  |  |  |  | unto servants *= servant* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | That | land |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | I |  |  |  |  | unto you | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | present | Ye | spies |  |  |  |  | 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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וַיֹּ֥אמֶר אֲלֵהֶ֖ם יוֹסֵ֑ף ה֗וּא אֲשֶׁ֨ר דִּבַּ֧רְתִּי אֲלֵכֶ֛ם לֵאמֹ֖ר מְרַגְּלִ֥ים אַתֶּֽם׃

[Genesis 42:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.42.14/)

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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:1375` 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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