--- title: Genesis 47:20 (JPS 1917) — So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptian… · tree and pragmatics description: So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine was sore upon them; and the land became Pharaoh's. Who acts: Joseph, Egyptians, famine, land. 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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, Egyptians, famine, land), 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:1561 # text = So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine was sore upon them; and the land became Pharaoh's. 1 So so ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 Joseph Joseph PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 bought buy VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 6 det:predet _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 Egypt Egypt PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 Pharaoh Pharaoh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 12 for for SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 Egyptians egyptian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 15 sold sell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 16 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 17 det _ _ 17 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 iobj _ _ 18 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 field field NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 because because SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 famine famine NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 24 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 25 sore sore ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 advcl _ _ 26 upon upon ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obl _ _ 28 ; ; PUNCT : _ 32 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 32 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 33 Pharaoh Pharaoh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 xcomp _ _ 34 's 's PART POS _ 33 case _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **buy** | past | Joseph | all land of Egypt | | | | for Pharaoh | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent land=Theme for pharaoh=Beneficiary | | 2 | **sell** | past | the Egyptians | land's field | every man | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent man=Recipient field=Theme | | 3 | **is** | past | the famine | | | | | upon Egyptians *= egyptian*; sore *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **become** | past | the land | | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | 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} וַיִּ֨קֶן יוֹסֵ֜ף אֶת־כָּל־אַדְמַ֤ת מִצְרַ֙יִם֙ לְפַרְעֹ֔ה כִּֽי־מָכְר֤וּ מִצְרַ֙יִם֙ אִ֣ישׁ שָׂדֵ֔הוּ כִּֽי־חָזַ֥ק עֲלֵהֶ֖ם הָרָעָ֑ב וַתְּהִ֥י הָאָ֖רֶץ לְפַרְעֹֽה׃ [Genesis 47:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.47.20/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:1561` 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. - ← previous: [Genesis 47:19 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1560/) - next →: [Genesis 47:21 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1562/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 47:20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.47.20/)