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title: Genesis 47:15 (JPS 1917) — And when the money was all spent in the land of Egypt, and in the la… · tree and pragmatics
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# Genesis 47:15 · JPS 1917

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And when the money was all spent in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came unto Joseph, and said: 'Give us bread; for why should we die in thy presence? for our money faileth.'

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**Who acts:** Egyptians, we, money · **What happens:** spend, come, say, give, die, fail · **To what, where:** money, land, bread, us · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Genesis 47:15 · 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 (Egyptians, we, money), 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:1555
# text = And when the money was all spent in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came unto Joseph, and said: 'Give us bread; for why should we die in thy presence? for our money faileth.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	7	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
6	all	all	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	spent	spend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	advcl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Canaan	Canaan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	23	det:predet	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Egyptians	Egyptian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
25	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Joseph	Joseph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
30	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
31	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	_
32	Give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	ccomp	_	_
33	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	iobj	_	_
34	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	40	punct	_	_
36	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
37	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	40	advmod	_	_
38	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
39	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	parataxis	_	_
41	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
44	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	40	punct	_	_
45	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
46	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
47	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nsubj	_	_
48	faileth	fail	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	parataxis	_	_
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
50	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spend** | past · passive |  | the money |  | the land of Egypt |  | all *property* | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset |
| 2 | **come** | past | all Egyptians |  |  | the land of Canaan |  | unto Joseph | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in land=Location |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | all Egyptians *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **give** | infinitive |  | bread | us |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient bread=Theme |
| 5 | **die** | should | we |  |  |  |  | in thy presence | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in presence=Attribute |
| 6 | **fail** | present | our money |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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וַיִּתֹּ֣ם הַכֶּ֗סֶף מֵאֶ֣רֶץ מִצְרַיִם֮ וּמֵאֶ֣רֶץ כְּנַעַן֒ וַיָּבֹאוּ֩ כָל־מִצְרַ֨יִם אֶל־יוֹסֵ֤ף לֵאמֹר֙ הָֽבָה־לָּ֣נוּ לֶ֔חֶם וְלָ֥מָּה נָמ֖וּת נֶגְדֶּ֑ךָ כִּ֥י אָפֵ֖ס כָּֽסֶף׃

[Genesis 47:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.47.15/)

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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:1555` of Mova's parse database.

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