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title: Genesis 47:4 (JPS 1917) — Now therefore, we pray thee, let thy servants dwell in the land of G… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now therefore, we pray thee, let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen.' Who acts: we, servants. Genesis 47:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 47:4 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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Now therefore, we pray thee, let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen.'

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**Who acts:** we, servants · **What happens:** pray, let, dwell · **To what, where:** thee, servants, land

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This is Genesis 47:4 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 (we, servants), 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:1542
# text = Now therefore, we pray thee, let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen.'
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	pray	pray	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
9	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	dwell	dwell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Goshen	Goshen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
18	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp, act=request, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pray** | present | we | thee |  |  | now | therefore *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **let** | infinitive | we *not said here* | thy servants |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **dwell** | infinitive | thy servants *not said here* |  |  | the land of Goshen |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in land=Location |

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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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וַיֹּאמְר֣וּ אֶל־פַּרְעֹ֗ה לָג֣וּר בָּאָרֶץ֮ בָּאנוּ֒ כִּי־אֵ֣ין מִרְעֶ֗ה לַצֹּאן֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר לַעֲבָדֶ֔יךָ כִּֽי־כָבֵ֥ד הָרָעָ֖ב בְּאֶ֣רֶץ כְּנָ֑עַן וְעַתָּ֛ה יֵֽשְׁבוּ־נָ֥א עֲבָדֶ֖יךָ בְּאֶ֥רֶץ גֹּֽשֶׁן׃

[Genesis 47:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.47.4/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [And they said unto Pharaoh: 'To sojourn in the land are we come; for there is no pasture for thy servants' flocks; for the famine is sore in the land of Canaan.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1541/)
2. **Now therefore, we pray thee, let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen.'**

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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:1542` 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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