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title: Genesis 42:22 (JPS 1917) — And Reuben answered them, saying: 'Spoke I not unto you, saying: Do… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Reuben answered them, saying: 'Spoke I not unto you, saying: Do not sin against the child; and ye would not hear? therefore also, behold, his blood is required.' Who acts: Reuben, I, ye. Genesis 42:22 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 42:22 · JPS 1917

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And Reuben answered them, saying: 'Spoke I not unto you, saying: Do not sin against the child; and ye would not hear? therefore also, behold, his blood is required.'

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**Who acts:** Reuben, I, ye · **What happens:** answer, say, not speak, not sin, not hear, require · **To what, where:** words, blood · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Genesis 42:22 · 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 (Reuben, 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:1383
# text = And Reuben answered them, saying: 'Spoke I not unto you, saying: Do not sin against the child; and ye would not hear? therefore also, behold, his blood is required.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Reuben	Reuben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
12	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
17	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	sin	sin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	ccomp	_	_
20	against	against	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	28	nsubj	_	_
26	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
29	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
30	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
31	also	also	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	38	discourse	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj:pass	_	_
37	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux:pass	_	_
38	required	require	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
40	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Reuben |  | words *= word* |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Reuben *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **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 clause=Topic |
| 5 | **not** **sin** | infinitive · do-support |  |  |  |  |  | against the child | vn rebel-71.2-1-1 «NP V PP.maleficiary»: agent=Agent against child=Maleficiary |
| 6 | **not** **hear** | would | ye |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **require** | present · passive |  | Reuben's blood |  |  |  | therefore *property* | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Precondition |

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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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וַיַּעַן֩ רְאוּבֵ֨ן אֹתָ֜ם לֵאמֹ֗ר הֲלוֹא֩ אָמַ֨רְתִּי אֲלֵיכֶ֧ם ׀ לֵאמֹ֛ר אַל־תֶּחֶטְא֥וּ בַיֶּ֖לֶד וְלֹ֣א שְׁמַעְתֶּ֑ם וְגַם־דָּמ֖וֹ הִנֵּ֥ה נִדְרָֽשׁ׃

[Genesis 42:22: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.42.22/)

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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:1383` 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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