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title: Genesis 43:21 (JPS 1917) — And it came to pass, when we came to the lodging-place, that we open… · tree and pragmatics
description: And it came to pass, when we came to the lodging-place, that we opened our sacks, and, behold, every man's money was in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight; and we have brought it back in our hand. Who acts: food, we, money. Genesis 43:21 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Genesis 43:21 · JPS 1917

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And it came to pass, when we came to the lodging-place, that we opened our sacks, and, behold, every man's money was in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight; and we have brought it back in our hand.

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**Who acts:** food, we, money · **What happens:** come, pass, open, be, bring back · **To what, where:** lodging place, sacks, mouth, food, hand

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This is Genesis 43:21 · 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 (food, we, money), 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:1421
# text = And it came to pass, when we came to the lodging-place, that we opened our sacks, and, behold, every man's money was in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight; and we have brought it back in our hand.
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	xcomp	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	9	mark	_	_
8	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	lodging	lodging	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	_
14	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	csubj	_	_
19	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	sacks	sack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	33	discourse	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
26	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	det	_	_
27	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	's	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	_
29	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	sack	sack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
43	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	47	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
45	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
46	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
47	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
48	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	obj	_	_
49	back	back	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
50	in	in	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	52	nmod:poss	_	_
52	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	_
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **come** | past | food |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pass** | to-infinitive | food *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | past | we |  |  | the lodging place |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **open** | past | we | our sacks |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sack=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | past | every man's money |  |  | the mouth and our money in full weight |  | of man's sack | tree rules |
| 6 | **bring back** | present · perfect | we | food |  | our hand |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=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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וַֽיְהִ֞י כִּי־בָ֣אנוּ אֶל־הַמָּל֗וֹן וַֽנִּפְתְּחָה֙ אֶת־אַמְתְּחֹתֵ֔ינוּ וְהִנֵּ֤ה כֶֽסֶף־אִישׁ֙ בְּפִ֣י אַמְתַּחְתּ֔וֹ כַּסְפֵּ֖נוּ בְּמִשְׁקָל֑וֹ וַנָּ֥שֶׁב אֹת֖וֹ בְּיָדֵֽנוּ׃

[Genesis 43:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.43.21/)

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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:1421` 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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