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title: Genesis 44:25 (JPS 1917) — And our father said: Go again, buy us a little food. · tree and pragmatics
description: And our father said: Go again, buy us a little food. Who acts: father. Genesis 44:25 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 44:25 · JPS 1917

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And our father said: Go again, buy us a little food.

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**Who acts:** father · **What happens:** say, go, buy · **To what, where:** little food, us · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Genesis 44:25 · 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 (father), 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:1464
# text = And our father said: Go again, buy us a little food.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
7	again	again	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	buy	buy	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
10	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	iobj	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: other
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed form=other, act=narrate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | our father |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **go** | infinitive |  |  |  |  | again |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **buy** | infinitive |  | a little food | us |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent we=Beneficiary food=Theme |

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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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וַיֹּ֖אמֶר אָבִ֑ינוּ שֻׁ֖בוּ שִׁבְרוּ־לָ֥נוּ מְעַט־אֹֽכֶל׃

[Genesis 44:25: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.44.25/)

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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:1464` 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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