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title: Genesis 43:20 (JPS 1917) — and said: 'Oh my lord, we came indeed down at the first time to buy… · tree and pragmatics
description: and said: 'Oh my lord, we came indeed down at the first time to buy food. Who acts: we. Genesis 43:20 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 43:20 · JPS 1917

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and said: 'Oh my lord, we came indeed down at the first time to buy food.

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**Who acts:** we · **What happens:** say, come down, buy · **To what, where:** food · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Genesis 43:20 · 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 (we), 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:1420
# text = and said: 'Oh my lord, we came indeed down at the first time to buy food.
1	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
4	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
5	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	vocative	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
11	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	down	down	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	16	amod	_	_
16	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
19	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **come down** | past | we |  |  |  | time | my lord *vocative*; down, indeed *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **buy** | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | food |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 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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וַיֹּאמְר֖וּ בִּ֣י אֲדֹנִ֑י יָרֹ֥ד יָרַ֛דְנוּ בַּתְּחִלָּ֖ה לִשְׁבָּר־אֹֽכֶל׃

[Genesis 43:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.43.20/)

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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:1420` 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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