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title: Genesis 44:34 (JPS 1917) — For how shall I go up to my father, if the lad be not with me? lest… · tree and pragmatics
description: For how shall I go up to my father, if the lad be not with me? lest I look upon the evil that shall come on my father.' Who acts: I, lad, evil. Genesis 44:34 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 44:34 · JPS 1917

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For how shall I go up to my father, if the lad be not with me? lest I look upon the evil that shall come on my father.'

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**Who acts:** I, lad, evil · **What happens:** go up, not be, look, come

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This is Genesis 44:34 · 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 (I, lad, evil), 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:1473
# text = For how shall I go up to my father, if the lad be not with me? lest I look upon the evil that shall come on my father.'
1	For	for	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	Mood=Sub|VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	advcl	_	_
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
19	lest	lest	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
22	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
26	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	acl:relcl	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
32	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: express
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=express, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go up** | shall | I |  |  |  |  | to my father; for *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **not** **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | infinitive | the lad |  |  |  |  | with me | tree rules |
| 3 | **look** | present | I |  |  |  |  | upon the evil | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon evil=Theme |
| 4 | **come** | shall | the evil |  |  |  |  | on my father | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on father=Location |

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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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כִּי־אֵיךְ֙ אֶֽעֱלֶ֣ה אֶל־אָבִ֔י וְהַנַּ֖עַר אֵינֶ֣נּוּ אִתִּ֑י פֶּ֚ן אֶרְאֶ֣ה בָרָ֔ע אֲשֶׁ֥ר יִמְצָ֖א אֶת־אָבִֽי׃

[Genesis 44:34: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.44.34/)

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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:1473` 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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