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title: Genesis 45:5 (JPS 1917) — And now be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me h… · tree and pragmatics
description: And now be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither; for God did send me before you to preserve life. Who acts: ye, God. Genesis 45:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 45:5 · JPS 1917

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And now be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither; for God did send me before you to preserve life.

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**Who acts:** ye, God · **What happens:** not grieve, sell, send, preserve · **To what, where:** me, life

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This is Genesis 45:5 · 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, God), 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:1479
# text = And now be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither; for God did send me before you to preserve life.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	grieved	grieve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	8	cc	_	_
8	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	yourselves	yourselves	PRON	PRP	Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	8	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nsubj	_	_
14	sold	sell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
15	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	hither	hither	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
18	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
22	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	before	before	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	preserve	preserve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
27	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **not** **grieve** | infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  | now |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
| 2 | **sell** | past | ye | me |  |  |  | hither *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 3 | **send** | past · do-support | God | me |  |  | before you |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 4 | **preserve** | to-infinitive | God *not said here* | life |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Beneficiary |

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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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וְעַתָּ֣ה ׀ אַל־תֵּעָ֣צְב֗וּ וְאַל־יִ֙חַר֙ בְּעֵ֣ינֵיכֶ֔ם כִּֽי־מְכַרְתֶּ֥ם אֹתִ֖י הֵ֑נָּה כִּ֣י לְמִֽחְיָ֔ה שְׁלָחַ֥נִי אֱלֹהִ֖ים לִפְנֵיכֶֽם׃

[Genesis 45:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.45.5/)

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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:1479` 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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