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title: Genesis 45:6 (JPS 1917) — For these two years hath the famine been in the land; and there are… · tree and pragmatics
description: For these two years hath the famine been in the land; and there are yet five years, in which there shall be neither plowing nor harvest. Who acts: famine, five years, plowing. Genesis 45:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 45:6 · JPS 1917

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For these two years hath the famine been in the land; and there are yet five years, in which there shall be neither plowing nor harvest.

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**Who acts:** famine, five years, plowing · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** land

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This is Genesis 45:6 · 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 (famine, five years, plowing), 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:1480
# text = For these two years hath the famine been in the land; and there are yet five years, in which there shall be neither plowing nor harvest.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
5	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	famine	famine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
8	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	cop	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	there	there	PRON	EX	_	15	expl	_	_
15	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
16	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	obl	_	_
22	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	24	expl	_	_
23	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	acl:relcl	_	_
25	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	26	cc:preconj	_	_
26	plowing	plow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
27	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	28	cc	_	_
28	harvest	harvest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present · perfect | the famine |  |  | the land | year |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **does** | present | five years |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **be** | shall | plowing nor harvest |  |  | there | in five years |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=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־זֶ֛ה שְׁנָתַ֥יִם הָרָעָ֖ב בְּקֶ֣רֶב הָאָ֑רֶץ וְעוֹד֙ חָמֵ֣שׁ שָׁנִ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר אֵין־חָרִ֖ישׁ וְקָצִּֽיר׃

[Genesis 45:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.45.6/)

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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:1480` 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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