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title: Genesis 46:4 (JPS 1917) — I will go down with thee into Egypt; and I will also surely bring th… · tree and pragmatics
description: I will go down with thee into Egypt; and I will also surely bring thee up again; and Joseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes.' Who acts: I, Joseph. Genesis 46:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 46:4 · JPS 1917

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I will go down with thee into Egypt; and I will also surely bring thee up again; and Joseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes.'

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**Who acts:** I, Joseph · **What happens:** go down, bring up, put · **To what, where:** Egypt, thee, hand, eyes

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This is Genesis 46:4 · 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 (I, Joseph), 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:1506
# text = I will go down with thee into Egypt; and I will also surely bring thee up again; and Joseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes.'
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	down	down	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	obl	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
13	also	also	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
16	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	obj	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
18	again	again	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	Joseph	Joseph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
30	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: promise
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go down** | future | I |  |  | Egypt |  | with thee; down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **bring up** | future | I | thee |  |  | again | surely *property* | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent thou=Patient |
| 3 | **put** | shall | Joseph | Egypt's hand |  | thine eyes |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme upon eye=Destination |

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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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אָנֹכִ֗י אֵרֵ֤ד עִמְּךָ֙ מִצְרַ֔יְמָה וְאָנֹכִ֖י אַֽעַלְךָ֣ גַם־עָלֹ֑ה וְיוֹסֵ֕ף יָשִׁ֥ית יָד֖וֹ עַל־עֵינֶֽיךָ׃

[Genesis 46:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.46.4/)

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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:1506` 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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