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title: Genesis 45:4 (JPS 1917) — And Joseph said unto his brethren: 'Come near to me, I pray you.' An… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Joseph said unto his brethren: 'Come near to me, I pray you.' And they came near. Who acts: Joseph, I, brethren. Genesis 45:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 45:4 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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And Joseph said unto his brethren: 'Come near to me, I pray you.' And they came near.

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**Who acts:** Joseph, I, brethren · **What happens:** say, come, pray · **To what, where:** me, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Genesis 45:4 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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, 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:1477
# text = And Joseph said unto his brethren: 'Come near to me, I pray you.' And they came near.
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	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
10	near	near	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	pray	pray	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
18	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
19	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
22	near	near	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: other
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=other

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| # | 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 | **come** | infinitive |  |  | me |  |  | near *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **pray** | present | I | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **come** | past | brethren |  |  |  |  | near *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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וַיֹּ֨אמֶר יוֹסֵ֧ף אֶל־אֶחָ֛יו גְּשׁוּ־נָ֥א אֵלַ֖י וַיִּגָּ֑שׁוּ וַיֹּ֗אמֶר אֲנִי֙ יוֹסֵ֣ף אֲחִיכֶ֔ם אֲשֶׁר־מְכַרְתֶּ֥ם אֹתִ֖י מִצְרָֽיְמָה׃

[Genesis 45:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.45.4/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **And Joseph said unto his brethren: 'Come near to me, I pray you.' And they came near.**
2. [And he said: 'I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1478/)

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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:1477` 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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