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title: Genesis 43:14 (JPS 1917) — And as for me, if I be bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.' · tree and pragmatics
description: And as for me, if I be bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.' Who acts: I. Genesis 43:14 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 43:14 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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And as for me, if I be bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.'

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** bereave, be · **To what, where:** I

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This is Genesis 43:14 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 (I), 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:1414
# text = And as for me, if I be bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
2	as	as	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	2	fixed	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
6	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Sub|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	bereaved	bereave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	advcl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	bereaved	bereaved	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
18	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **bereave** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive |  | I |  |  |  | of my children | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Source of child=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | as me; bereaved *property* | tree rules |

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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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וְאֵ֣ל שַׁדַּ֗י יִתֵּ֨ן לָכֶ֤ם רַחֲמִים֙ לִפְנֵ֣י הָאִ֔ישׁ וְשִׁלַּ֥ח לָכֶ֛ם אֶת־אֲחִיכֶ֥ם אַחֵ֖ר וְאֶת־בִּנְיָמִ֑ין וַאֲנִ֕י כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר שָׁכֹ֖לְתִּי שָׁכָֽלְתִּי׃

[Genesis 43:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.43.14/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [and God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may release unto you your other brother and Benjamin.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1413/)
2. **And as for me, if I be bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.'**

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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:1414` 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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