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title: Genesis 44:29 (JPS 1917) — and if ye take this one also from me, and harm befall him, ye will b… · tree and pragmatics
description: and if ye take this one also from me, and harm befall him, ye will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave. Who acts: ye, harm. Genesis 44:29 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 44:29 · JPS 1917

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and if ye take this one also from me, and harm befall him, ye will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.

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**Who acts:** ye, harm · **What happens:** take, befall, bring down · **To what, where:** one, father, gray hairs, grave

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This is Genesis 44:29 · 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 (ye, harm), 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:1468
# text = and if ye take this one also from me, and harm befall him, ye will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
1	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
4	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	also	also	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	befall	befall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
16	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	18	nsubj	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
19	down	down	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	gray	gray	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	hairs	hair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | ye | this one |  |  |  | from me | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent one=Theme from i=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **befall** | infinitive | harm | father |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **bring down** | future | ye | my gray hairs |  | the grave |  | with sorrow | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hair=Theme to grave=Destination |

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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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וּלְקַחְתֶּ֧ם גַּם־אֶת־זֶ֛ה מֵעִ֥ם פָּנַ֖י וְקָרָ֣הוּ אָס֑וֹן וְהֽוֹרַדְתֶּ֧ם אֶת־שֵׂיבָתִ֛י בְּרָעָ֖ה שְׁאֹֽלָה׃

[Genesis 44:29: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.44.29/)

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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:1468` 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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