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title: Genesis 47:7 (JPS 1917) — And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh. · tree and pragmatics
description: And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh. Who acts: Joseph. Genesis 47:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 47:7 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh.

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**Who acts:** Joseph · **What happens:** bring in, set · **To what, where:** Jacob, Joseph

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This is Genesis 47:7 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 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 (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:1546
# text = And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Joseph	Joseph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	Jacob	Jacob	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	before	before	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Pharaoh	Pharaoh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **bring in** | past | Joseph | Jacob |  |  |  |  | vn earn-54.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme jacob=Asset |
| 2 | **set** | past | Joseph *not said here* | Joseph |  |  | before Pharaoh |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme before pharaoh=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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וַיָּבֵ֤א יוֹסֵף֙ אֶת־יַֽעֲקֹ֣ב אָבִ֔יו וַיַּֽעֲמִדֵ֖הוּ לִפְנֵ֣י פַרְעֹ֑ה וַיְבָ֥רֶךְ יַעֲקֹ֖ב אֶת־פַּרְעֹֽה׃

[Genesis 47:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.47.7/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh.**
2. [And Jacob blessed Pharaoh.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1547/)

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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:1546` 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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