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title: Genesis 43:29 (JPS 1917) — And he lifted up his eyes, and saw Benjamin his brother, his mother'… · tree and pragmatics
description: And he lifted up his eyes, and saw Benjamin his brother, his mother's son, and said: 'Is this your youngest brother of whom ye spoke unto me?' And he said: 'God be gracious unto thee, my son.' Who acts: Joseph, this, ye, God. Genesis 43:29 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Genesis 43:29 · JPS 1917

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And he lifted up his eyes, and saw Benjamin his brother, his mother's son, and said: 'Is this your youngest brother of whom ye spoke unto me?' And he said: 'God be gracious unto thee, my son.'

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**Who acts:** Joseph, this, ye, God · **What happens:** lift up, see, say, be, speak · **To what, where:** eyes, Benjamin, youngest brother · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Genesis 43:29 · 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 (Joseph, this, ye, God), 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:1431
# text = And he lifted up his eyes, and saw Benjamin his brother, his mother's son, and said: 'Is this your youngest brother of whom ye spoke unto me?' And he said: 'God be gracious unto thee, my son.'
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	lifted	lift	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	Benjamin	Benjamin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
22	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	_
23	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
24	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	nsubj	_	_
25	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	27	amod	_	_
27	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	ccomp	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	31	obl	_	_
30	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	31	nsubj	_	_
31	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
32	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	obl	_	_
34	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	_
35	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
36	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
39	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	43	punct	_	_
40	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	43	punct	_	_
41	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
42	be	be	AUX	VB	Mood=Sub|VerbForm=Fin	43	cop	_	_
43	gracious	gracious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	ccomp	_	_
44	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	43	obl	_	_
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
47	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
48	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	vocative	_	_
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	43	punct	_	_
50	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	43	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: evaluate
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lift up** | past | Joseph | Joseph's eyes |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past | Joseph *not said here* | Benjamin |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer benjamin=Stimulus |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Joseph *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | present | this | your youngest brother |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | ye |  |  |  |  | of your youngest brother; unto me | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Joseph |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **is** | infinitive | God |  |  |  |  | unto thee; my son *vocative*; gracious *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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וַיִּשָּׂ֣א עֵינָ֗יו וַיַּ֞רְא אֶת־בִּנְיָמִ֣ין אָחִיו֮ בֶּן־אִמּוֹ֒ וַיֹּ֗אמֶר הֲזֶה֙ אֲחִיכֶ֣ם הַקָּטֹ֔ן אֲשֶׁ֥ר אֲמַרְתֶּ֖ם אֵלָ֑י וַיֹּאמַ֕ר אֱלֹהִ֥ים יָחְנְךָ֖ בְּנִֽי׃

[Genesis 43:29: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.43.29/)

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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:1431` 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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