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title: Genesis 44:15 (JPS 1917) — And Joseph said unto them: 'What deed is this that ye have done? kno… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Joseph said unto them: 'What deed is this that ye have done? know ye not that such a man as I will indeed divine?' Who acts: Joseph, this, ye, man. Genesis 44:15 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 44:15 · JPS 1917

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And Joseph said unto them: 'What deed is this that ye have done? know ye not that such a man as I will indeed divine?'

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**Who acts:** Joseph, this, ye, man · **What happens:** say, be, do, not know, divine · **To what, where:** deed · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Genesis 44:15 · 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, man), 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:1453
# text = And Joseph said unto them: 'What deed is this that ye have done? know ye not that such a man as I will indeed divine?'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Joseph	Joseph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
8	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	9	det	_	_
9	deed	deed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
11	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	nsubj	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	obj	_	_
13	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	nsubj	_	_
14	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
17	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
18	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	17	nsubj	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
21	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	23	det:predet	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nmod	_	_
26	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	divine	divine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	ccomp	_	_
29	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
30	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: evaluate
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed act=evaluate, indirect=1, polarity=neg

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Joseph |  |  |  |  | unto Judah | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | this | what deed |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | present · perfect | ye |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality |
| 4 | **not** **know** | present | ye |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **divine** | future | such man as I |  |  |  |  | indeed *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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וַיֹּ֤אמֶר לָהֶם֙ יוֹסֵ֔ף מָֽה־הַמַּעֲשֶׂ֥ה הַזֶּ֖ה אֲשֶׁ֣ר עֲשִׂיתֶ֑ם הֲל֣וֹא יְדַעְתֶּ֔ם כִּֽי־נַחֵ֧שׁ יְנַחֵ֛שׁ אִ֖ישׁ אֲשֶׁ֥ר כָּמֹֽנִי׃

[Genesis 44:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.44.15/)

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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:1453` 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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