--- title: Genesis 45:7 (JPS 1917) — And God sent me before you to give you a remnant on the earth, and t… · tree and pragmatics description: And God sent me before you to give you a remnant on the earth, and to save you alive for a great deliverance. Who acts: God. Genesis 45:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1481/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Torah](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/) / [Genesis](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/) / [chapter 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/45/) / [45:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.45.7/) / JPS 1 # Genesis 45:7 · JPS 1917 And God sent me before you to give you a remnant on the earth, and to save you alive for a great deliverance. **Who acts:** God · **What happens:** send, give, save · **To what, where:** me, remnant, you, earth This is Genesis 45:7 · 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 (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:1481 # text = And God sent me before you to give you a remnant on the earth, and to save you alive for a great deliverance. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 sent send VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 before before ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 obl _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 9 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 iobj _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 remnant remnant NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 12 on on ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 save save VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 19 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 alive alive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 xcomp _ _ 21 for for ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 deliverance deliverance NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **send** | past | God | me | | | before you | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | | 2 | **give** | to-infinitive | God *not said here* | a remnant | you | the earth | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent you=Recipient remnant=Theme on earth=Asset | | 3 | **save** | to-infinitive | God *not said here* | you | | | | for a great deliverance; alive *property* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent you=Theme for deliverance=Source | 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} וַיִּשְׁלָחֵ֤נִי אֱלֹהִים֙ לִפְנֵיכֶ֔ם לָשׂ֥וּם לָכֶ֛ם שְׁאֵרִ֖ית בָּאָ֑רֶץ וּלְהַחֲי֣וֹת לָכֶ֔ם לִפְלֵיטָ֖ה גְּדֹלָֽה׃ [Genesis 45:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.45.7/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:1481` 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 45:6 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1480/) - next →: [Genesis 45:8 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1482/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 45:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.45.7/)