--- title: Genesis 44:1 (JPS 1917) — And he commanded the steward of his house, saying: 'Fill the men's s… · tree and pragmatics description: And he commanded the steward of his house, saying: 'Fill the men's sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put every man's money in his sack's mouth. Who acts: he, sacks. 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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 (he, 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:1438 # text = And he commanded the steward of his house, saying: 'Fill the men's sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put every man's money in his sack's mouth. 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 commanded command VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 steward steward NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 12 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 13 Fill fill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 ccomp _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod:poss _ _ 16 's 's PART POS _ 15 case _ _ 17 sacks sack NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 as as ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 much much ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 23 as as SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 24 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 advcl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 30 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 31 det _ _ 31 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod:poss _ _ 32 's 's PART POS _ 31 case _ _ 33 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 38 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 38 nmod:poss _ _ 37 's 's PART POS _ 36 case _ _ 38 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **command** | past | he | the steward of his house | | | | | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent steward=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | he *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **fill** | infinitive | he *not said here* | the men's sacks | | | | with food | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent sack=Patient with food=Instrument | | 4 | **carry** | can | sacks *= sack* | | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **put** | infinitive | he *not said here* | every man's money | | his sack's mouth | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent money=Theme in mouth=Destination | 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} וַיְצַ֞ו אֶת־אֲשֶׁ֣ר עַל־בֵּיתוֹ֮ לֵאמֹר֒ מַלֵּ֞א אֶת־אַמְתְּחֹ֤ת הָֽאֲנָשִׁים֙ אֹ֔כֶל כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר יוּכְל֖וּן שְׂאֵ֑ת וְשִׂ֥ים כֶּֽסֶף־אִ֖ישׁ בְּפִ֥י אַמְתַּחְתּֽוֹ׃ [Genesis 44:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.44.1/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:1438` 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. - ← previous: [Genesis 43:34 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1437/) - next →: [Genesis 44:2 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1439/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 44:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.44.1/)