--- title: Genesis 44:21 (JPS 1917) — And thou saidst unto thy servants: Bring him down unto me, that I ma… · tree and pragmatics description: And thou saidst unto thy servants: Bring him down unto me, that I may set mine eyes upon him. Who acts: thou, I. Genesis 44:21 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1460/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Torah](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/) / [Genesis](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/) / [chapter 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/44/) / [44:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.44.21/) / JPS 1 # Genesis 44:21 · JPS 1917 And thou saidst unto thy servants: Bring him down unto me, that I may set mine eyes upon him. **Who acts:** thou, I · **What happens:** say, bring down, set · **To what, where:** lord, eyes · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is Genesis 44:21 · 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 (thou, I), 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:1460 # text = And thou saidst unto thy servants: Bring him down unto me, that I may set mine eyes upon him. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 3 nsubj _ _ 3 saidst say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 unto unto ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 servants servant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 8 Bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 ccomp _ _ 9 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 down down ADV RP _ 8 advmod _ _ 11 unto unto ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 that that SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 15 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 16 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 set set VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 advcl _ _ 18 mine mine PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 20 upon upon ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obl _ _ 22 . . 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 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | thou | | | | | unto thy servants | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **bring down** | infinitive | | | lord | | | unto me; down *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | | 3 | **set** | may | I | mine eyes | | | | upon lord | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme upon he=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} וַתֹּ֙אמֶר֙ אֶל־עֲבָדֶ֔יךָ הוֹרִדֻ֖הוּ אֵלָ֑י וְאָשִׂ֥ימָה עֵינִ֖י עָלָֽיו׃ [Genesis 44:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.44.21/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:1460` 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 44:20 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1459/) - next →: [Genesis 44:22 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1461/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 44:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.44.21/)