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title: Genesis 43:25 (JPS 1917) — And they made ready the present against Joseph's coming at noon; for… · tree and pragmatics
description: And they made ready the present against Joseph's coming at noon; for they heard that they should eat bread there. Who acts: sacks. Genesis 43:25 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 43:25 · JPS 1917

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And they made ready the present against Joseph's coming at noon; for they heard that they should eat bread there.

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**Who acts:** sacks · **What happens:** make, come, hear, eat · **To what, where:** present, bread · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Genesis 43:25 · 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 (sacks), 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:1426
# text = And they made ready the present against Joseph's coming at noon; for they heard that they should eat bread there.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	against	against	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	Joseph	Joseph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	advcl	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	noon	noon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	ccomp	_	_
21	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **make** | past | sacks *= sack* | the present |  |  |  | ready *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset present=Product |
| 2 | **come** | gerund | sacks *= sack* *not said here* |  |  |  | noon |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **hear** | past | sacks *= sack* |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **eat** | should | sacks *= sack* | bread |  | there |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient |

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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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וַיָּכִ֙ינוּ֙ אֶת־הַמִּנְחָ֔ה עַד־בּ֥וֹא יוֹסֵ֖ף בַּֽצָּהֳרָ֑יִם כִּ֣י שָֽׁמְע֔וּ כִּי־שָׁ֖ם יֹ֥אכְלוּ לָֽחֶם׃

[Genesis 43:25: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.43.25/)

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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:1426` 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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