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title: Genesis 44:18 (JPS 1917) — Then Judah came near unto him, and said: 'Oh my lord, let thy servan… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Judah came near unto him, and said: 'Oh my lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a word in my lord's ears, and let not thine anger burn against thy servant; for thou art even as Pharaoh. Who acts: Judah, I, servant, thou. Genesis 44:18 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Genesis 44:18 · JPS 1917

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Then Judah came near unto him, and said: 'Oh my lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a word in my lord's ears, and let not thine anger burn against thy servant; for thou art even as Pharaoh.

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**Who acts:** Judah, I, servant, thou, thine · **What happens:** come, say, let, pray, speak, not let · **To what, where:** servant, thee, word, ears, anger · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Genesis 44:18 · 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 (Judah, I, servant, thou), 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:1457
# text = Then Judah came near unto him, and said: 'Oh my lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a word in my lord's ears, and let not thine anger burn against thy servant; for thou art even as Pharaoh.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Judah	Judah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	near	near	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
11	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
12	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	16	discourse	_	_
13	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	vocative	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
17	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	pray	pray	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
22	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	21	obj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
24	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod:poss	_	_
30	's	's	PART	POS	_	29	case	_	_
31	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
35	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	34	advmod	_	_
36	thine	thine	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
38	burn	burn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	xcomp	_	_
39	against	against	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
42	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	48	punct	_	_
43	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
44	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	48	nsubj	_	_
45	art	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	48	cop	_	_
46	even	even	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
47	as	as	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	Pharaoh	Pharaoh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	advcl	_	_
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **come** | past | Judah |  |  |  | then | unto God; near *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Judah *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive |  | thy servant |  |  |  | my lord *vocative* | tree rules |
| 4 | **pray** | present | I | thee |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **speak** *speech: other* | infinitive | thy servant *not said here* | a word |  | my lord's ears |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **let** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **burn** | infinitive |  | thine anger |  |  |  | against thy servant | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent anger=Theme |
| 8 | **is** | present | thou |  |  |  |  | as Pharaoh | tree rules |
| 9 | **anger** |  | thine |  |  |  |  |  | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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וַיִּגַּ֨שׁ אֵלָ֜יו יְהוּדָ֗ה וַיֹּאמֶר֮ בִּ֣י אֲדֹנִי֒ יְדַבֶּר־נָ֨א עַבְדְּךָ֤ דָבָר֙ בְּאָזְנֵ֣י אֲדֹנִ֔י וְאַל־יִ֥חַר אַפְּךָ֖ בְּעַבְדֶּ֑ךָ כִּ֥י כָמ֖וֹךָ כְּפַרְעֹֽה׃

[Genesis 44:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.44.18/)

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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:1457` 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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