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title: Genesis 43:2 (JPS 1917) — And it came to pass, when they had eaten up the corn which they had… · tree and pragmatics
description: And it came to pass, when they had eaten up the corn which they had brought out of Egypt, that their father said unto them: 'Go again, buy us a little food.' Who acts: famine, they, father. Genesis 43:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 43:2 · JPS 1917

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And it came to pass, when they had eaten up the corn which they had brought out of Egypt, that their father said unto them: 'Go again, buy us a little food.'

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**Who acts:** famine, they, father · **What happens:** come, pass, eat up, bring out, say, go · **To what, where:** corn, Egypt, little food, us · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Genesis 43:2 · 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 (famine, they, father), 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:1401
# text = And it came to pass, when they had eaten up the corn which they had brought out of Egypt, that their father said unto them: 'Go again, buy us a little food.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	csubj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	10	mark	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	obj	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	out	out	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	fixed	_	_
20	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
26	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	_
28	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
29	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	_
30	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	25	ccomp	_	_
31	again	again	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	buy	buy	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
34	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	iobj	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	_
39	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | famine |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pass** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **eat up** | past · perfect | they | the corn |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corn=Patient |
| 4 | **bring out** | past · perfect | they | the corn |  | Egypt |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | their father |  |  |  |  | unto them *= they* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **go** | infinitive |  |  |  |  | again |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **buy** | infinitive |  | a little food | us |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent we=Beneficiary food=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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וַיְהִ֗י כַּאֲשֶׁ֤ר כִּלּוּ֙ לֶאֱכֹ֣ל אֶת־הַשֶּׁ֔בֶר אֲשֶׁ֥ר הֵבִ֖יאוּ מִמִּצְרָ֑יִם וַיֹּ֤אמֶר אֲלֵיהֶם֙ אֲבִיהֶ֔ם שֻׁ֖בוּ שִׁבְרוּ־לָ֥נוּ מְעַט־אֹֽכֶל׃

[Genesis 43:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.43.2/)

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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:1401` 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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