--- title: Genesis 45:26 (JPS 1917) — And they told him, saying: 'Joseph is yet alive, and he is ruler ove… · tree and pragmatics description: And they told him, saying: 'Joseph is yet alive, and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt.' And his heart fainted, for he believed them not. Who acts: brethren, Joseph, heart. 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And his heart fainted, for he believed them not. **Who acts:** brethren, Joseph, heart · **What happens:** tell, say, be, faint, not believe · **To what, where:** Joseph, ruler, land, brethren · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is Genesis 45:26 · 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 (brethren, Joseph, heart), 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:1500 # text = And they told him, saying: 'Joseph is yet alive, and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt.' And his heart fainted, for he believed them not. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 iobj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 8 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 9 Joseph Joseph PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 11 yet yet ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 alive alive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 ccomp _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 17 ruler ruler NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 18 over over ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 21 det:predet _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 Egypt Egypt PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ 25 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ 26 And and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 fainted faint VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 for for SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 32 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 believed believe VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 advcl _ _ 34 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | brethren | | Joseph | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | brethren *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | Joseph | | | | yet | alive *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | present | Joseph | ruler | | all land of Egypt | | | tree rules | | 5 | **faint** | past | Joseph's heart | | | | | | vn change\_bodily\_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **not** **believe** | past | Joseph | brethren | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | 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} וַיַּגִּ֨דוּ ל֜וֹ לֵאמֹ֗ר ע֚וֹד יוֹסֵ֣ף חַ֔י וְכִֽי־ה֥וּא מֹשֵׁ֖ל בְּכָל־אֶ֣רֶץ מִצְרָ֑יִם וַיָּ֣פָג לִבּ֔וֹ כִּ֥י לֹא־הֶאֱמִ֖ין לָהֶֽם׃ [Genesis 45:26: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.45.26/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:1500` 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 45:25 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1499/) - next →: [Genesis 45:27 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1501/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 45:26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.45.26/)