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title: Genesis 42:33 (JPS 1917) — And the man, the lord of the land, said unto us: Hereby shall I know… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the man, the lord of the land, said unto us: Hereby shall I know that ye are upright men: leave one of your brethren with me, and take corn for the famine of your houses, and go your way. Who acts: man, I, ye. Genesis 42:33 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 42:33 · JPS 1917

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And the man, the lord of the land, said unto us: Hereby shall I know that ye are upright men: leave one of your brethren with me, and take corn for the famine of your houses, and go your way.

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**Who acts:** man, I, ye · **What happens:** say, know, be, leave, take, go · **To what, where:** upright men, one, corn, way · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Genesis 42:33 · 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 (man, 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:1394
# text = And the man, the lord of the land, said unto us: Hereby shall I know that ye are upright men: leave one of your brethren with me, and take corn for the famine of your houses, and go your way.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
15	Hereby	hereby	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
16	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	23	nsubj	_	_
21	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	upright	upright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	ccomp	_	_
24	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
25	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	parataxis	_	_
26	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	brethren	brethren	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
35	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
36	for	for	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	famine	famine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nmod	_	_
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
45	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the man |  |  |  |  | unto us | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **know** | shall | I |  |  |  |  | hereby *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is a** | present | ye | upright men |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **leave** | infinitive |  | one of your brethren |  |  |  | with me | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent one=Recipient with i=Theme |
| 5 | **take** | infinitive |  | corn |  |  |  | for the famine of your houses | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent corn=Theme for famine=Beneficiary |
| 6 | **go** | infinitive |  | your way |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=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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וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֵלֵ֗ינוּ הָאִישׁ֙ אֲדֹנֵ֣י הָאָ֔רֶץ בְּזֹ֣את אֵדַ֔ע כִּ֥י כֵנִ֖ים אַתֶּ֑ם אֲחִיכֶ֤ם הָֽאֶחָד֙ הַנִּ֣יחוּ אִתִּ֔י וְאֶת־רַעֲב֥וֹן בָּתֵּיכֶ֖ם קְח֥וּ וָלֵֽכוּ׃

[Genesis 42:33: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.42.33/)

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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:1394` 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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