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title: Genesis 42:20 (JPS 1917) — and bring your youngest brother unto me; so shall your words be veri… · tree and pragmatics
description: and bring your youngest brother unto me; so shall your words be verified, and ye shall not die.' And they did so. Who acts: you, ye, words, your. Genesis 42:20 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 42:20 · JPS 1917

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and bring your youngest brother unto me; so shall your words be verified, and ye shall not die.' And they did so.

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**Who acts:** you, ye, words, your · **What happens:** bring, verify, not die, do, word · **To what, where:** youngest brother, words

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This is Genesis 42:20 · 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 (you, ye, words, your), 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:1381
# text = and bring your youngest brother unto me; so shall your words be verified, and ye shall not die.' And they did so.
1	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	bring	bring	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
5	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
10	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
11	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	verified	verify	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	20	nsubj	_	_
18	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
22	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
23	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed act=request, polarity=none, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | imperative | you *not said here* |  | your youngest brother |  |  | unto me | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument brother=Destination |
| 2 | **verify** | shall · passive |  | your words |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **die** | shall | ye |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **do** | past | words *= word* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **word** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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וְאֶת־אֲחִיכֶ֤ם הַקָּטֹן֙ תָּבִ֣יאוּ אֵלַ֔י וְיֵאָמְנ֥וּ דִבְרֵיכֶ֖ם וְלֹ֣א תָמ֑וּתוּ וַיַּעֲשׂוּ־כֵֽן׃

[Genesis 42:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.42.20/)

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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:1381` 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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