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title: Genesis 42:25 (JPS 1917) — Then Joseph commanded to fill their vessels with corn, and to restor… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Joseph commanded to fill their vessels with corn, and to restore every man's money into his sack, and to give them provision for the way; and thus was it done unto them. Who acts: Joseph. Genesis 42:25 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 42:25 · JPS 1917

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Then Joseph commanded to fill their vessels with corn, and to restore every man's money into his sack, and to give them provision for the way; and thus was it done unto them.

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**Who acts:** Joseph · **What happens:** command, fill, restore, give, do · **To what, where:** vessels, money, sack, provision, words · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Genesis 42:25 · 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), 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:1386
# text = Then Joseph commanded to fill their vessels with corn, and to restore every man's money into his sack, and to give them provision for the way; and thus was it done unto them.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	Joseph	Joseph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	commanded	command	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	fill	fill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	vessels	vessel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	restore	restore	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
14	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
18	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	sack	sack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	iobj	_	_
26	provision	provision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
32	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux:pass	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
35	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
36	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obl	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **command** | past | Joseph |  |  |  | then |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **fill** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Joseph *not said here* | words's vessels |  |  |  | with corn | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent vessel=Patient with corn=Instrument |
| 3 | **restore** | to-infinitive | Joseph *not said here* | every man's money |  | Joseph's sack |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent money=Theme |
| 4 | **give** | to-infinitive | Joseph *not said here* | provision | words *= word* |  |  | for the way | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent they=Recipient provision=Theme for way=Asset |
| 5 | **do** | past · passive |  | provision |  |  |  | unto words *= word*; thus *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |

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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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וַיְצַ֣ו יוֹסֵ֗ף וַיְמַלְא֣וּ אֶת־כְּלֵיהֶם֮ בָּר֒ וּלְהָשִׁ֤יב כַּסְפֵּיהֶם֙ אִ֣ישׁ אֶל־שַׂקּ֔וֹ וְלָתֵ֥ת לָהֶ֛ם צֵדָ֖ה לַדָּ֑רֶךְ וַיַּ֥עַשׂ לָהֶ֖ם כֵּֽן׃

[Genesis 42:25: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.42.25/)

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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:1386` 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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