--- title: Genesis 45:3 (JPS 1917) — And Joseph said unto his brethren: 'I am Joseph; doth my father yet… · tree and pragmatics description: And Joseph said unto his brethren: 'I am Joseph; doth my father yet live?' And his brethren could not answer him; for they were affrighted at his presence. Who acts: Joseph, I, father, brethren. 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And his brethren could not answer him; for they were affrighted at his presence. **Who acts:** Joseph, I, father, brethren · **What happens:** say, be, live, not answer, affright · **To what, where:** Joseph, brethren, presence · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is Genesis 45:3 · 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 (Joseph, I, father, brethren), 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:1476 # text = And Joseph said unto his brethren: 'I am Joseph; doth my father yet live?' And his brethren could not answer him; for they were affrighted at his presence. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 Joseph Joseph PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 unto unto ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 brethren brethren NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 8 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 9 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 10 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 11 Joseph Joseph PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 ccomp _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 13 doth do AUX MD Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 14 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 16 yet yet ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 ccomp _ _ 18 ? ? PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ 19 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ 20 And and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 21 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 brethren brethren NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 23 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 answer answer VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 26 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 ; ; PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 28 for for SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 29 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj:pass _ _ 30 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux:pass _ _ 31 affrighted affright VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 advcl _ _ 32 at at ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 presence presence NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: ask - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Joseph | | | | | unto Joseph's brethren | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **is a** | present | I | Joseph | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **live** | do-support | my father | | | | yet | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **not** **answer** *speech: assert* | could | Joseph's brethren | | Joseph | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality | | 5 | **affright** | past · passive | | brethren | | Joseph's presence | | | tree rules | 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} וַיֹּ֨אמֶר יוֹסֵ֤ף אֶל־אֶחָיו֙ אֲנִ֣י יוֹסֵ֔ף הַע֥וֹד אָבִ֖י חָ֑י וְלֹֽא־יָכְל֤וּ אֶחָיו֙ לַעֲנ֣וֹת אֹת֔וֹ כִּ֥י נִבְהֲל֖וּ מִפָּנָֽיו׃ [Genesis 45:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.45.3/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:1476` 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 45:2 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1475/) - next →: [Genesis 45:4 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1477/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 45:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.45.3/)