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title: Genesis 42:19 (JPS 1917) — if ye be upright men, let one of your brethren be bound in your pris… · tree and pragmatics
description: if ye be upright men, let one of your brethren be bound in your prison-house; but go ye, carry corn for the famine of your houses; Who acts: ye, you, one. Genesis 42:19 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 42:19 · JPS 1917

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if ye be upright men, let one of your brethren be bound in your prison-house; but go ye, carry corn for the famine of your houses;

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**Who acts:** ye, you, one · **What happens:** be, let, bind, go, carry · **To what, where:** upright men, one, prison house, ye, corn

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This is Genesis 42:19 · 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 (ye, you, one), 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:1380
# text = if ye be upright men, let one of your brethren be bound in your prison-house; but go ye, carry corn for the famine of your houses;
1	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nsubj	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	upright	upright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	advcl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	brethren	brethren	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	bound	bind	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	xcomp	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
16	prison	prison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	_
18	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
22	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	21	obj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	parataxis	_	_
25	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	famine	famine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
32	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- 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 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | ye | upright men |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | one of your brethren |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **bind** | infinitive · passive | one of your brethren *not said here* |  |  | your prison house |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
| 4 | **go** | infinitive | you *not said here* | ye |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ye=Theme |
| 5 | **carry** | infinitive |  | corn |  |  |  | for the famine of your houses | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corn=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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אִם־כֵּנִ֣ים אַתֶּ֔ם אֲחִיכֶ֣ם אֶחָ֔ד יֵאָסֵ֖ר בְּבֵ֣ית מִשְׁמַרְכֶ֑ם וְאַתֶּם֙ לְכ֣וּ הָבִ֔יאוּ שֶׁ֖בֶר רַעֲב֥וֹן בָּתֵּיכֶֽם׃

[Genesis 42:19: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.42.19/)

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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:1380` 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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