--- title: Genesis 42:28 (JPS 1917) — And he said unto his brethren: 'My money is restored; and, lo, it is… · tree and pragmatics description: And he said unto his brethren: 'My money is restored; and, lo, it is even in my sack.' And their heart failed them, and they turned trembling one to another, saying: 'What is this that God hath done unto us?' Who acts: corn, money, heart, words. 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And their heart failed them, and they turned trembling one to another, saying: 'What is this that God hath done unto us?' **Who acts:** corn, money, heart, words, God · **What happens:** say, restore, be, fail, turn, tremble · **To what, where:** money, sack, words, one · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is Genesis 42:28 · 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 (corn, money, heart, words), 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:1389 # text = And he said unto his brethren: 'My money is restored; and, lo, it is even in my sack.' And their heart failed them, and they turned trembling one to another, saying: 'What is this that God hath done unto us?' 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 unto unto ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 brethren brethren NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 8 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 9 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj:pass _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux:pass _ _ 12 restored restore VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 ccomp _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 lo lo INTJ UH _ 23 discourse _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 20 even even ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 sack sack NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ 25 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ 26 And and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 failed fail VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 30 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ _ 35 trembling tremble VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 34 xcomp _ _ 36 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 35 obj _ _ 37 to to ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 another another PRON DT PronType=Ind 35 obl _ _ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 40 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 34 advcl _ _ 41 : : PUNCT : _ 45 punct _ _ 42 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 43 punct _ _ 43 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 45 nsubj _ _ 44 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 cop _ _ 45 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 40 ccomp _ _ 46 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 49 obj _ _ 47 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 49 nsubj _ _ 48 hath have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 49 aux _ _ 49 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 45 acl:relcl _ _ 50 unto unto ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 51 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 49 obl _ _ 52 ? ? PUNCT . _ 45 punct _ _ 53 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 45 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | corn | | | | | unto corn's brethren | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **restore** | present · passive | | My money | | | | | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | money | | | my sack | | | tree rules | | 4 | **fail** | past | words's heart | words *= word* | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality | | 5 | **turn** | past | words *= word* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **tremble** | gerund | words *= word* *not said here* | one | | | | to another | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location one=Theme | | 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | words *= word* *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **is a** | present | | | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **do** | present · perfect | God | | | | | unto us | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | 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} וַיֹּ֤אמֶר אֶל־אֶחָיו֙ הוּשַׁ֣ב כַּסְפִּ֔י וְגַ֖ם הִנֵּ֣ה בְאַמְתַּחְתִּ֑י וַיֵּצֵ֣א לִבָּ֗ם וַיֶּֽחֶרְד֞וּ אִ֤ישׁ אֶל־אָחִיו֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר מַה־זֹּ֛את עָשָׂ֥ה אֱלֹהִ֖ים לָֽנוּ׃ [Genesis 42:28: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.42.28/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:1389` 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. - ← previous: [Genesis 42:27 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1388/) - next →: [Genesis 42:29 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1390/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 42:28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.42.28/)