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title: Genesis 47:1 (JPS 1917) — Then Joseph went in and told Pharaoh, and said: 'My father and my br… · tree and pragmatics
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# Genesis 47:1 · JPS 1917

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Then Joseph went in and told Pharaoh, and said: 'My father and my brethren, and their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have, are come out of the land of Canaan; and, behold, they are in the land of Goshen.'

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**Who acts:** Joseph, father · **What happens:** go in, tell, say, have, come out, be · **To what, where:** Pharaoh, land · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Genesis 47:1 · 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 (Joseph, father), 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:1538
# text = Then Joseph went in and told Pharaoh, and said: 'My father and my brethren, and their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have, are come out of the land of Canaan; and, behold, they are in the land of Goshen.'
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Joseph	Joseph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	Pharaoh	Pharaoh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
13	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	brethren	brethren	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	flocks	flock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	herds	herd	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	conj	_	_
29	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	obj	_	_
30	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
33	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	ccomp	_	_
35	out	out	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	fixed	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	Canaan	Canaan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
41	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	50	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
44	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	50	discourse	_	_
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
46	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
47	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	50	cop	_	_
48	in	in	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	Goshen	Goshen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	nmod	_	_
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	34	punct	_	_
54	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	34	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 in** | past | Joseph |  |  |  | then |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Joseph *not said here* |  | Pharaoh |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent pharaoh=Recipient |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Joseph *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **have** | present | father |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient |
| 5 | **come out** | present · passive | My father and my brethren and father's flocks and father's herds | the land of Canaan |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient land=Result |
| 6 | **is** | present | father |  |  | the land |  | of Goshen | tree rules |

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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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וַיָּבֹ֣א יוֹסֵף֮ וַיַּגֵּ֣ד לְפַרְעֹה֒ וַיֹּ֗אמֶר אָבִ֨י וְאַחַ֜י וְצֹאנָ֤ם וּבְקָרָם֙ וְכָל־אֲשֶׁ֣ר לָהֶ֔ם בָּ֖אוּ מֵאֶ֣רֶץ כְּנָ֑עַן וְהִנָּ֖ם בְּאֶ֥רֶץ גֹּֽשֶׁן׃

[Genesis 47:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.47.1/)

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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:1538` 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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