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title: Genesis 46:20 (JPS 1917) — And unto Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim,… · tree and pragmatics
description: And unto Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath the daughter of Poti-phera priest of On bore unto him. Who acts: Asenath. Genesis 46:20 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 46:20 · JPS 1917

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And unto Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath the daughter of Poti-phera priest of On bore unto him.

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**Who acts:** Asenath · **What happens:** bear · **To what, where:** Manasseh

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This is Genesis 46:20 · 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 (Asenath), 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:1523
# text = And unto Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath the daughter of Poti-phera priest of On bore unto him.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Joseph	Joseph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	Manasseh	Manasseh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	Ephraim	Ephraim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
15	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	obj	_	_
16	Asenath	Asenath	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	Poti	Poti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	_
22	phera	phera	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	_
23	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	On	On	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	bore	bear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
27	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **bear** | past · passive |  | Manasseh and Ephraim |  |  |  | unto Joseph in the land of Egypt | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **bear** | past | Asenath | Manasseh and Ephraim |  |  |  | unto Joseph | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Patient |

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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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וַיִּוָּלֵ֣ד לְיוֹסֵף֮ בְּאֶ֣רֶץ מִצְרַיִם֒ אֲשֶׁ֤ר יָֽלְדָה־לּוֹ֙ אָֽסְנַ֔ת בַּת־פּ֥וֹטִי פֶ֖רַע פּ֥וֹטִי פֶ֖רַע כֹּהֵ֣ן אֹ֑ן אֶת־מְנַשֶּׁ֖ה וְאֶת־אֶפְרָֽיִם׃

[Genesis 46:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.46.20/)

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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:1523` 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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