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title: Genesis 47:16 (JPS 1917) — And Joseph said: 'Give your cattle, and I will give you bread for yo… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Joseph said: 'Give your cattle, and I will give you bread for your cattle, if money fail.' Who acts: Joseph, I, money. Genesis 47:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 47:16 · JPS 1917

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And Joseph said: 'Give your cattle, and I will give you bread for your cattle, if money fail.'

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**Who acts:** Joseph, I, money · **What happens:** say, give, fail · **To what, where:** cattle, bread, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Genesis 47:16 · 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, I, 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:1556
# text = And Joseph said: 'Give your cattle, and I will give you bread for your cattle, if money fail.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Joseph	Joseph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
5	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
7	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	iobj	_	_
15	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	fail	fail	VERB	VBP	Mood=Sub|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
24	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Joseph |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **give** | infinitive |  | your cattle |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cattle=Theme |
| 3 | **give** | future | I | bread | you |  |  | for your cattle | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent you=Recipient bread=Theme for cattle=Asset |
| 4 | **fail** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | 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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וַיֹּ֤אמֶר יוֹסֵף֙ הָב֣וּ מִקְנֵיכֶ֔ם וְאֶתְּנָ֥ה לָכֶ֖ם בְּמִקְנֵיכֶ֑ם אִם־אָפֵ֖ס כָּֽסֶף׃

[Genesis 47:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.47.16/)

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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:1556` 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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