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title: Genesis 43:27 (JPS 1917) — And he asked them of their welfare, and said: 'Is your father well,… · tree and pragmatics
description: And he asked them of their welfare, and said: 'Is your father well, the old man of whom ye spoke? Who acts: Joseph, father, ye. Genesis 43:27 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 43:27 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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And he asked them of their welfare, and said: 'Is your father well, the old man of whom ye spoke?

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**Who acts:** Joseph, father, ye · **What happens:** ask, say, be, speak · **To what, where:** sacks · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Genesis 43:27 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 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 (Joseph, father, ye), 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:1428
# text = And he asked them of their welfare, and said: 'Is your father well, the old man of whom ye spoke?
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	welfare	welfare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
12	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
13	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
14	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	obl	_	_
23	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	24	nsubj	_	_
24	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
25	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- 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 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Joseph |  | sacks *= sack* |  |  | of sacks's welfare | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Joseph *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | your father |  |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | ye |  |  |  |  | of the old man | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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וַיִּשְׁאַ֤ל לָהֶם֙ לְשָׁל֔וֹם וַיֹּ֗אמֶר הֲשָׁל֛וֹם אֲבִיכֶ֥ם הַזָּקֵ֖ן אֲשֶׁ֣ר אֲמַרְתֶּ֑ם הַעוֹדֶ֖נּוּ חָֽי׃

[Genesis 43:27: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.43.27/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **And he asked them of their welfare, and said: 'Is your father well, the old man of whom ye spoke?**
2. [Is he yet alive?'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1429/)

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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:1428` 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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