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title: Genesis 43:11 (JPS 1917) — And their father Israel said unto them: 'If it be so now, do this: t… · tree and pragmatics
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# Genesis 43:11 · JPS 1917

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And their father Israel said unto them: 'If it be so now, do this: take of the choice fruits of the land in your vessels, and carry down the man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, spicery and ladanum, nuts, and almonds;

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**Who acts:** father, blame · **What happens:** say, be, do, take, carry down · **To what, where:** this, vessels, present, man · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Genesis 43:11 · 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 (father, blame), 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:1410
# text = And their father Israel said unto them: 'If it be so now, do this: take of the choice fruits of the land in your vessels, and carry down the man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, spicery and ladanum, nuts, and almonds;
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
9	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
10	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advcl	_	_
14	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
16	do	do	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
17	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	obj	_	_
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
19	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	choice	choice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	fruits	fruit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	vessels	vessel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	carry	carry	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
33	down	down	ADP	RP	_	32	compound:prt	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	iobj	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	balm	balm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	_
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	_
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
48	spicery	spicery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
50	ladanum	ladanum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	conj	_	_
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
52	nuts	nut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	conj	_	_
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
55	almonds	almond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	conj	_	_
56	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	5	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | words's father |  |  |  |  | unto words *= word* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | infinitive | blame |  |  |  | now | so *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | infinitive |  | this |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality |
| 4 | **take** | infinitive |  |  |  | your vessels |  | of the choice fruits of the land | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent of fruit=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **carry down** | infinitive |  | a present and a little balm and a little honey and spicery and ladanum and nuts and almonds | the man |  |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme man=Beneficiary present=Value |

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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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וַיֹּ֨אמֶר אֲלֵהֶ֜ם יִשְׂרָאֵ֣ל אֲבִיהֶ֗ם אִם־כֵּ֣ן ׀ אֵפוֹא֮ זֹ֣את עֲשׂוּ֒ קְח֞וּ מִזִּמְרַ֤ת הָאָ֙רֶץ֙ בִּכְלֵיכֶ֔ם וְהוֹרִ֥ידוּ לָאִ֖ישׁ מִנְחָ֑ה מְעַ֤ט צֳרִי֙ וּמְעַ֣ט דְּבַ֔שׁ נְכֹ֣את וָלֹ֔ט בָּטְנִ֖ים וּשְׁקֵדִֽים׃

[Genesis 43:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.43.11/)

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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:1410` of Mova's parse database.

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